Pith Number

pith:HVH46KC5

pith:2017:HVH46KC5VTESSXZWZW2ZMY6XTY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tail-Tolerant Distributed Search

David Carmel, Idit Keidar, Naama Kraus

arxiv:1707.07426 v1 · 2017-07-24 · cs.IR · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HVH46KC5VTESSXZWZW2ZMY6XTY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:42.242922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d4fcf285dacc9295f36cdb59663d79e3766a99672d88ab604c3621e853f6846

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.07426 · arxiv_version: 1707.07426v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.07426 · pith_short_12: HVH46KC5VTES · pith_short_16: HVH46KC5VTESSXZW · pith_short_8: HVH46KC5

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/HVH46KC5VTESSXZWZW2ZMY6XTY \
  | 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: 3d4fcf285dacc9295f36cdb59663d79e3766a99672d88ab604c3621e853f6846

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "409b4fdd1ed2111332e0524e787ec905d7cd2fc6ffdf2b5b26aa8e8799c21cab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-24T07:32:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87ef8f28069507d876edf2441b65a7a58a345b9e9340270dd845630ceb812777"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.07426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}