Pith Number

pith:D44KHIEU

pith:2026:D44KHIEU6QPHZUC5PUA4AWPIC2

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arxiv:2608.13369 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D44KHIEU6QPHZUC5PUA4AWPIC2}

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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	2026-08-14T01:04:18.645196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f38a3a094f41e7cd05d7d01c059e816b0f2e59ae87fd388765307065d948a16

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13369 · arxiv_version: 2608.13369v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13369 · pith_short_12: D44KHIEU6QPH · pith_short_16: D44KHIEU6QPHZUC5 · pith_short_8: D44KHIEU

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/D44KHIEU6QPHZUC5PUA4AWPIC2 \
  | 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: 1f38a3a094f41e7cd05d7d01c059e816b0f2e59ae87fd388765307065d948a16

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04d3bcf2046857471da768d80fa974c0fa4c38e0491e8cebf2306baa66ed1b9d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T15:33:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "489d0fbc1c22a89dcd23e4eabb67918810337ce33c28ef931a60a89394f1616f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}