Pith Number

pith:CXLGAEBA

pith:2014:CXLGAEBALJZS2OLUWFV3GG3TQ5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Circumstances in which parsimony but not compatibility will be provably misleading

Mike Steel, Robert W. Scotland

arxiv:1409.3274 v2 · 2014-09-10 · q-bio.PE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CXLGAEBALJZS2OLUWFV3GG3TQ5}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T02:29:08.233993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

15d66010205a732d3974b16bb31b73874db10c354aed3c18e1a9c9f205012e28

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.3274 · arxiv_version: 1409.3274v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.3274 · pith_short_12: CXLGAEBALJZS · pith_short_16: CXLGAEBALJZS2OLU · pith_short_8: CXLGAEBA

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/CXLGAEBALJZS2OLUWFV3GG3TQ5 \
  | 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: 15d66010205a732d3974b16bb31b73874db10c354aed3c18e1a9c9f205012e28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52bff9cfb41d2584c920f859e510bfaf6130cb30d1de46702b78f3a3296f40dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-10T22:59:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79dc034ca3320bb8c637777c70f41ab78ccfbf15f78b9fb2bbedde4a13c2bc28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.3274",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}