Pith Number

pith:F4KRHJPN

pith:2016:F4KRHJPNBPOSDDAO7G3QQPKC2Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An electric-resistance approach to return time

Greg Markowsky

arxiv:1612.01241 v1 · 2016-12-05 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F4KRHJPNBPOSDDAO7G3QQPKC2Z}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:53.075013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f1513a5ed0bdd218c0ef9b7083d42d6545dae69ef36ae903298ef69cfefe34b

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.01241 · arxiv_version: 1612.01241v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.01241 · pith_short_12: F4KRHJPNBPOS · pith_short_16: F4KRHJPNBPOSDDAO · pith_short_8: F4KRHJPN

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/F4KRHJPNBPOSDDAO7G3QQPKC2Z \
  | 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: 2f1513a5ed0bdd218c0ef9b7083d42d6545dae69ef36ae903298ef69cfefe34b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6d3c5a2295ff6ea74ea4d359bb9819d417d5632a670c6b1de9664b1069522b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-05T04:06:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bea792626877a3df4e12c58e565f25755a8ec3adf22643148fa31fb24a00234"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.01241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}