Pith Number

pith:DM2MVPS4

pith:2019:DM2MVPS4ZYRL2TSGMEWE6QJTBM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Observability to Significance in Distributed Information Systems

Mark Burgess

arxiv:1907.05636 v2 · 2019-07-12 · cs.MA · cs.AI · cs.DC · cs.SY · eess.SY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DM2MVPS4ZYRL2TSGMEWE6QJTBM}

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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	2026-05-17T23:39:35.161946Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b34cabe5cce22bd4e46612c4f41330b375f7eb648b625bc85079f1e47deb81b

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.05636 · arxiv_version: 1907.05636v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.05636 · pith_short_12: DM2MVPS4ZYRL · pith_short_16: DM2MVPS4ZYRL2TSG · pith_short_8: DM2MVPS4

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/DM2MVPS4ZYRL2TSGMEWE6QJTBM \
  | 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: 1b34cabe5cce22bd4e46612c4f41330b375f7eb648b625bc85079f1e47deb81b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac002b965beeea78f944e34cdc423bf449756a0c2f83aeae6ef5e7c9cc508ea0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.SY",
      "eess.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-12T09:11:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e61c14682c7b03b37db07eff321ab823fabd6783b90ab5347fd59a2587cb8b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.05636",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}