Pith Number

pith:FMYR4SLM

pith:2017:FMYR4SLMBIQ4AY2SNLCVTFZ7AA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sketching the order of events

Harald Oberhauser, Terry Lyons

arxiv:1708.09708 v1 · 2017-08-31 · stat.ML · cs.DS · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FMYR4SLMBIQ4AY2SNLCVTFZ7AA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:15.698629Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b311e496c0a21c063526ac559973f001799c67c58674a4eade27f86f77d8f62

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09708 · arxiv_version: 1708.09708v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09708 · pith_short_12: FMYR4SLMBIQ4 · pith_short_16: FMYR4SLMBIQ4AY2S · pith_short_8: FMYR4SLM

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/FMYR4SLMBIQ4AY2SNLCVTFZ7AA \
  | 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: 2b311e496c0a21c063526ac559973f001799c67c58674a4eade27f86f77d8f62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ee6df1d62e4cd5a6485fccbc99d0cfcfca8e53c8053c7e2586875f4825a7fd4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-31T13:51:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8192880f9ecdd6635355da6b431c8405b143199e4ea1069c9603db643e10194"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09708",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}