Pith Number

pith:DE5G6MAL

pith:2018:DE5G6MALDN6W3ZXIQRZSP33GCX

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G\"unter Last, Norbert Henze

arxiv:1809.10192 v1 · 2018-09-26 · math.PR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DE5G6MALDN6W3ZXIQRZSP33GCX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:38.873886Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

193a6f300b1b7d6de6e8847327ef6615dc768576e63ca0818b2223c178eaaf4a

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.10192 · arxiv_version: 1809.10192v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.10192 · pith_short_12: DE5G6MALDN6W · pith_short_16: DE5G6MALDN6W3ZXI · pith_short_8: DE5G6MAL

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/DE5G6MALDN6W3ZXIQRZSP33GCX \
  | 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: 193a6f300b1b7d6de6e8847327ef6615dc768576e63ca0818b2223c178eaaf4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef4a62a01a2587c92b8f91ed12bf31eb343feb1339648b74e931ba1785334b9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-26T19:06:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de96858b6648c0427af2db8f2b8d1c027acdfb1d5a32ab44199369fabb897cef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.10192",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}