Pith Number

pith:GV4ZLEO7

pith:2012:GV4ZLEO7DJRHCLL2YIHY4SPVMW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Alex Thomo, Sean Chester, Sue Whitesides, S. Venkatesh

arxiv:1205.0837 v1 · 2012-05-04 · cs.DB · cs.CG

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GV4ZLEO7DJRHCLL2YIHY4SPVMW}

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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	2026-05-18T03:56:23.814407Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

35799591df1a62712d7ac20f8e49f5659530fa6d9bcdecd9730587d94d836e70

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0837 · arxiv_version: 1205.0837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0837 · pith_short_12: GV4ZLEO7DJRH · pith_short_16: GV4ZLEO7DJRHCLL2 · pith_short_8: GV4ZLEO7

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/GV4ZLEO7DJRHCLL2YIHY4SPVMW \
  | 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: 35799591df1a62712d7ac20f8e49f5659530fa6d9bcdecd9730587d94d836e70

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89e2fad40ab038a38e0b011474b52ade3ad25b75b5f6397e3790bca139bdc468",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-04T00:03:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a16de5256c5616edd8c999d814ede92d3de7d5d02e0d812aa0b6125ddeee1da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}