Pith Number

pith:DFAY53VU

pith:2025:DFAY53VU3VUG2C2THSSMHAUOB3

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Dirk Van Hertem, Md Umar Hashmi, Olivia Rubbers, Sari Kerckhove

arxiv:2508.16834 v1 · 2025-08-22 · eess.SY · cs.SY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DFAY53VU3VUG2C2THSSMHAUOB3}

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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	2026-07-05T11:58:04.819683Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

19418eeeb4dd686d0b533ca4c3828e0efb27c2933f0b6b9a1bfccd1fb0978c43

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.16834 · arxiv_version: 2508.16834v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.16834 · pith_short_12: DFAY53VU3VUG · pith_short_16: DFAY53VU3VUG2C2T · pith_short_8: DFAY53VU

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/DFAY53VU3VUG2C2THSSMHAUOB3 \
  | 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: 19418eeeb4dd686d0b533ca4c3828e0efb27c2933f0b6b9a1bfccd1fb0978c43

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27a6ea7d1f60a770bbadb17751bc43a09b2acf06b959a795853b3bc821002e72",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-22T23:15:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce2c20b208fae2d9c6a8958220e30748091724c8e20bd25c9c91c4e7d2495a4e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.16834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}