Pith Number

pith:FEKR76ZK

pith:2013:FEKR76ZKL5SNX7TMPEFGF6PHSR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coauthorship and citation in scientific publishing

Brian Ball, Brian Karrer, M. E. J. Newman, Travis Martin

arxiv:1304.0473 v1 · 2013-04-01 · cs.DL · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FEKR76ZKL5SNX7TMPEFGF6PHSR}

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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	2026-05-18T03:16:20.066566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29151ffb2a5f64dbfe6c790a62f9e794734df3e31773cfd538b6468c6bd5fbe8

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.0473 · arxiv_version: 1304.0473v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.0473 · pith_short_12: FEKR76ZKL5SN · pith_short_16: FEKR76ZKL5SNX7TM · pith_short_8: FEKR76ZK

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/FEKR76ZKL5SNX7TMPEFGF6PHSR \
  | 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: 29151ffb2a5f64dbfe6c790a62f9e794734df3e31773cfd538b6468c6bd5fbe8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb8272d9dd651f61d846a96d26d2107b25c48e34fa93e63da8a2931f0d1eacb8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-01T20:36:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "311989d043d9d8a06b4291e12f73b7087e373774a46f5e9a27b36f03844e92a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.0473",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}