Pith Number

pith:CK5XEZSQ

pith:2013:CK5XEZSQIPUHRABVSUXW7BBIEO

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arxiv:1301.1184 v1 · 2013-01-07 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CK5XEZSQIPUHRABVSUXW7BBIEO}

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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	2026-05-18T03:37:06.531457Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12bb72665043e8788035952f6f842823a2215bf57c97b6b3525e43d503474542

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.1184 · arxiv_version: 1301.1184v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.1184 · pith_short_12: CK5XEZSQIPUH · pith_short_16: CK5XEZSQIPUHRABV · pith_short_8: CK5XEZSQ

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/CK5XEZSQIPUHRABVSUXW7BBIEO \
  | 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: 12bb72665043e8788035952f6f842823a2215bf57c97b6b3525e43d503474542

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca38c612b831d1092c3cb8cc47484d64175c2269a91e95c92bcb227d439945aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-07T13:19:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1670423d552ef9fb9ecbdc2aa66a16c48c9fb2c5a2474fe70bedbcb0d49f65e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.1184",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}