Pith Number

pith:ESUI7CER

pith:2012:ESUI7CERDDXSDS5JDF43J5YFEH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When is Better Best? A multiobjective perspective

Clay Holdsworth, Mark Phillips

arxiv:1202.3823 v1 · 2012-02-17 · physics.med-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ESUI7CERDDXSDS5JDF43J5YFEH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:02:02.663331Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

24a88f889118ef21cba91979b4f70521c38f52371f53eb966366fcbebfafefbb

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3823 · arxiv_version: 1202.3823v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3823 · pith_short_12: ESUI7CERDDXS · pith_short_16: ESUI7CERDDXSDS5J · pith_short_8: ESUI7CER

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/ESUI7CERDDXSDS5JDF43J5YFEH \
  | 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: 24a88f889118ef21cba91979b4f70521c38f52371f53eb966366fcbebfafefbb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da65b28d72aea37613900b5a611bff8e622fb04cb83a315cdd6fc099fd9a5747",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.med-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-17T00:39:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1aea6a1f673069dc5efd26946a128d3d8a10f001a4ab876e178a96a5d8c2a11c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3823",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}