Pith Number

pith:FC2NG3TF

pith:2014:FC2NG3TFOCZLEJFSV2F7J3LZPC

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Ali C. Begen, Bruce Osler, David Oran, Joshua Gahm, Yufeng Shan, Zhi Li

arxiv:1401.5174 v1 · 2014-01-21 · cs.NI · cs.MM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FC2NG3TFOCZLEJFSV2F7J3LZPC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:01:34.624838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

28b4d36e6570b2b224b2ae8bf4ed79789035ab8032654b5133de72a1fc308c01

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.5174 · arxiv_version: 1401.5174v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.5174 · pith_short_12: FC2NG3TFOCZL · pith_short_16: FC2NG3TFOCZLEJFS · pith_short_8: FC2NG3TF

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/FC2NG3TFOCZLEJFSV2F7J3LZPC \
  | 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: 28b4d36e6570b2b224b2ae8bf4ed79789035ab8032654b5133de72a1fc308c01

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ef4f2d4507d5f51c5fd0b6b650c1bbfe1a61653fe9797cfe50d88cf536f98cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-21T04:35:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7402c75b756eb8669bab9967df929fc66a578a63cb3519108a9be749eec9a49d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.5174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}