Pith Number

pith:E3KEC3GO

pith:2014:E3KEC3GO5PEXMOXBA6CWASMXUU

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Ferdinando Cicalese, Gennaro Cordasco, Joseph Peters, Luisa Gargano, Martin Milanic, Ugo Vaccaro

arxiv:1404.3033 v5 · 2014-04-11 · cs.SI · cs.DS · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E3KEC3GO5PEXMOXBA6CWASMXUU}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:05.534939Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26d4416cceebc9763ae10785604997a527773b5a6680a7120fa7580feab451eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.3033 · arxiv_version: 1404.3033v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.3033 · pith_short_12: E3KEC3GO5PEX · pith_short_16: E3KEC3GO5PEXMOXB · pith_short_8: E3KEC3GO

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/E3KEC3GO5PEXMOXBA6CWASMXUU \
  | 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: 26d4416cceebc9763ae10785604997a527773b5a6680a7120fa7580feab451eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5fc84e4da773c946e16c22f8dfecff56d9aca1bf7d07cbdeab25e6d5476a4304",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-11T08:43:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2ad1d592a9666d4a0822d16d4137108b304b169cda68a37bea7d8df6e9830fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.3033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}