Pith Number

pith:G2LDUGME

pith:2026:G2LDUGMEOWU3F3LT4RVLBFCZFY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Monoculture

Gordon Burtch

arxiv:2607.13077 v1 · 2026-07-12 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.SE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2LDUGMEOWU3F3LT4RVLBFCZFY}

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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	2026-07-16T00:21:54.706844Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36963a198475a9b2ed73e46ab094592e29183f8c42265f73040a6c5c1255e254

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.13077 · arxiv_version: 2607.13077v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.13077 · pith_short_12: G2LDUGMEOWU3 · pith_short_16: G2LDUGMEOWU3F3LT · pith_short_8: G2LDUGME

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/G2LDUGMEOWU3F3LT4RVLBFCZFY \
  | 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: 36963a198475a9b2ed73e46ab094592e29183f8c42265f73040a6c5c1255e254

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3e8bd0a71f8469cc3a061e7defc46b97a6066cc2c5bc34fe82bca7d2f9f0b1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-12T21:01:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0084ec82e4a169898c1a6e58353c90705af3556d0eab81308769159ef180d13c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.13077",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}