Pith Number

pith:DFZ2YRV6

pith:2024:DFZ2YRV6VC4OKAXKXRNXDLRJ2Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Complexity as Design Material

Alfie Abduhl-Rahman, Bettina Speckmann, Florian Windhager, Houda Lamqaddam, Isabel Meirelles, Mark-Jan Bludau, Michael Correll, Nicole Hengesbach

arxiv:2409.07465 v2 · 2024-08-27 · cs.HC · cs.GR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DFZ2YRV6VC4OKAXKXRNXDLRJ2Q}

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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	2026-07-05T09:12:09.483854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1973ac46bea8b8e502eabc5b71ae29d42147cc7a2892424eeccf290bc58a0238

Aliases

arxiv: 2409.07465 · arxiv_version: 2409.07465v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.07465 · pith_short_12: DFZ2YRV6VC4O · pith_short_16: DFZ2YRV6VC4OKAXK · pith_short_8: DFZ2YRV6

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/DFZ2YRV6VC4OKAXKXRNXDLRJ2Q \
  | 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: 1973ac46bea8b8e502eabc5b71ae29d42147cc7a2892424eeccf290bc58a0238

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30c031a4bc9ae851fd5e527735d2dd83980a69b3ad8f1e88d68ac967b387ce6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-27T19:36:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6548454cd25517d472afc4b07e24721ddcfeb78a15f20061a1e50a2a6e8fdce3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2409.07465",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}