Pith Number

pith:FJKNIVVF

pith:2019:FJKNIVVFV4GKCKSQRPLKOWFK2O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal Patrol of a Perimeter

Kyle Y Lin

arxiv:1905.03600 v3 · 2019-05-06 · math.OC · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FJKNIVVFV4GKCKSQRPLKOWFK2O}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:50:10.837734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a54d456a5af0ca12a508bd6a758aad3b0d20f3dd417df6fc12c9c0cc2dc5986

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.03600 · arxiv_version: 1905.03600v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.03600 · pith_short_12: FJKNIVVFV4GK · pith_short_16: FJKNIVVFV4GKCKSQ · pith_short_8: FJKNIVVF

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/FJKNIVVFV4GKCKSQRPLKOWFK2O \
  | 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: 2a54d456a5af0ca12a508bd6a758aad3b0d20f3dd417df6fc12c9c0cc2dc5986

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69810273b07bf2a8ca57eadc5a228a6b2817e7e0b22a227eec9065afd17a5e6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-06T20:38:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b3f93d7deed38e0f91099c9df0ffc2f1838b77a87051b853c49db01b58d13f25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.03600",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}