Pith Number

pith:BOF6H2HT

pith:2020:BOF6H2HTXDZFDU7OQ2363OBX6U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Prioritizing documentation effort: Can we do better?

Baowen Xu, Hongmin Lu, Lei Xu, Lin Chen, Shiran Liu, Yanhui Li, Yuming Zhou, Zhaoqiang Guo

arxiv:2006.10892 v1 · 2020-06-18 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BOF6H2HTXDZFDU7OQ2363OBX6U}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:11:26.405363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b8be3e8f3b8f251d3ee86b7edb837f51a1a542f40abb4b014d0d42f4aefdd58

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.10892 · arxiv_version: 2006.10892v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.10892 · pith_short_12: BOF6H2HTXDZF · pith_short_16: BOF6H2HTXDZFDU7O · pith_short_8: BOF6H2HT

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BOF6H2HTXDZFDU7OQ2363OBX6U \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0b8be3e8f3b8f251d3ee86b7edb837f51a1a542f40abb4b014d0d42f4aefdd58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9cb256e1ffa2fdc926f2487406df313c989b0e3c7ec75480d5250171e6c8b391",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-18T23:06:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b6b121b6a34875b812714132aa8da78ff1b8e8b1e81e961187109e749c1f015"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.10892",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}