Pith Number

pith:HB4CPWYW

pith:2017:HB4CPWYWXQJCN26NIVH63V7DDI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anticipation of digital patterns

Eloy Hernandez-Guevara, Enver Solan, Hermann Kohlstedt, Karlheinz Ochs, Mahal Singh Gill, Marina Ignatov, Martin Ziegler, Mirko Hansen

arxiv:1704.07102 v2 · 2017-04-24 · cs.ET

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HB4CPWYWXQJCN26NIVH63V7DDI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:15.486128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

387827db16bc1226ebcd454fedd7e31a374ddecefdb0fd23c2844ab02d39116b

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.07102 · arxiv_version: 1704.07102v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.07102 · pith_short_12: HB4CPWYWXQJC · pith_short_16: HB4CPWYWXQJCN26N · pith_short_8: HB4CPWYW

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/HB4CPWYWXQJCN26NIVH63V7DDI \
  | 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: 387827db16bc1226ebcd454fedd7e31a374ddecefdb0fd23c2844ab02d39116b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1340abf57587a1997141f1c526bf57c44a200e2e1444434dd8df2adf696ad1a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-24T09:15:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "121eba4d69ebbfe176f6aa8116064096b43eaa1e2a0b4a6c13a4a3862824686b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.07102",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}