Pith Number

pith:I2XSQUKP

pith:2012:I2XSQUKPYCUNDMV7EFGJF26EMD

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Understanding Complex Service Systems Through Different Lenses: An Overview

Gerard Briscoe, Glenn Parry, Krista Keranen

arxiv:1211.5402 v1 · 2012-11-23 · cs.OH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I2XSQUKPYCUNDMV7EFGJF26EMD}

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:04.498829Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46af28514fc0a8d1b2bf214c92ebc460e9d5abb18544030f742dbc43f4ce7b9f

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.5402 · arxiv_version: 1211.5402v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.5402 · pith_short_12: I2XSQUKPYCUN · pith_short_16: I2XSQUKPYCUNDMV7 · pith_short_8: I2XSQUKP

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I2XSQUKPYCUNDMV7EFGJF26EMD \
  | 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: 46af28514fc0a8d1b2bf214c92ebc460e9d5abb18544030f742dbc43f4ce7b9f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ac5a06b4186b3111c87b130f9d924aa10ce0f9ee3cdff72c378859578c41148",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OH",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-23T01:50:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f0718cfe489e56c803f9fdac33178f466d50b5d5e67bf753013d9b050662fa9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.5402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}