Pith Number

pith:CGK7HFYR

pith:2026:CGK7HFYRSKWFDTHB3GME6GKUZ7

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PA-User: Simulating Trust and Verification under AI-Generated Content

Saber Zerhoudi

arxiv:2606.22738 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CGK7HFYRSKWFDTHB3GME6GKUZ7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-23T02:13:46.014033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1195f3971192ac51cce1d9984f1954cfd9ee7a2f953e9adb675e2491ee854c19

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22738 · arxiv_version: 2606.22738v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22738 · pith_short_12: CGK7HFYRSKWF · pith_short_16: CGK7HFYRSKWFDTHB · pith_short_8: CGK7HFYR

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/CGK7HFYRSKWFDTHB3GME6GKUZ7 \
  | 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: 1195f3971192ac51cce1d9984f1954cfd9ee7a2f953e9adb675e2491ee854c19

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ec236b0dfd746f726ef24046c6eeb4e5267153199bb78e97d1d00d9c9d6f4ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T00:45:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49708cd705ad33910000b7854a6a163abe9e7a83e7763a6263d35333af57993d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}