Pith Number

pith:BQSDQGIJ

pith:2018:BQSDQGIJFDLAZWOSASYLAF7O7H

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Dominik Kaaser, Peter Kling, Petra Berenbrink, Tom Friedetzky

arxiv:1808.05389 v1 · 2018-08-16 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQSDQGIJFDLAZWOSASYLAF7O7H}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:07:57.233974Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c2438190928d60cd9d204b0b017eef9ddcafa8c29f12bde88e067750853f560

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.05389 · arxiv_version: 1808.05389v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.05389 · pith_short_12: BQSDQGIJFDLA · pith_short_16: BQSDQGIJFDLAZWOS · pith_short_8: BQSDQGIJ

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/BQSDQGIJFDLAZWOSASYLAF7O7H \
  | 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: 0c2438190928d60cd9d204b0b017eef9ddcafa8c29f12bde88e067750853f560

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ba9f6c3ba941150e680a315259d38d79e06db922f5a2cdc2c0cd219e8ff4afb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-16T09:36:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78a0953f72d95d129f403eb40a5abfea8b18063e571fef5f0f34c0572f7e5ac6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.05389",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}