Pith Number

pith:ILECLGVH

pith:2014:ILECLGVHFRAJMGRJPG4V7VP2Q6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Balancing lists: a proof pearl

Arnaud Spiwack, Guyslain Naves

arxiv:1401.7886 v2 · 2014-01-30 · cs.DS · cs.LO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILECLGVHFRAJMGRJPG4V7VP2Q6}

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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	2026-05-18T02:49:47.013662Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42c8259aa72c40961a2979b95fd5fa87871e220bb20022b1e22d335f44720174

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.7886 · arxiv_version: 1401.7886v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.7886 · pith_short_12: ILECLGVHFRAJ · pith_short_16: ILECLGVHFRAJMGRJ · pith_short_8: ILECLGVH

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/ILECLGVHFRAJMGRJPG4V7VP2Q6 \
  | 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: 42c8259aa72c40961a2979b95fd5fa87871e220bb20022b1e22d335f44720174

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8b2dacf81b585519a5b4e9060406701e5b62e70e875c4aaa770656d4551c055",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-30T15:40:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a51ac70c62fb0719b59a4570fa98bf24b23b87ca0ed247f81264637f72d50b70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.7886",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}