Pith Number

pith:IM2B2DZE

pith:2026:IM2B2DZEN4MF4QG5TWIN7JI3PX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Phantom References: Hallucinated Citations That Survive Peer Review at Top-Tier Conferences

Ahmed Salem, Mark Russinovich, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar

arxiv:2607.00738 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.DL · cs.AI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IM2B2DZEN4MF4QG5TWIN7JI3PX}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-07-02T01:17:53.067157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

43341d0f246f185e40dd9d90dfa51b7de48d9652287e765b3cf8d0d73450521d

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00738 · arxiv_version: 2607.00738v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00738 · pith_short_12: IM2B2DZEN4MF · pith_short_16: IM2B2DZEN4MF4QG5 · pith_short_8: IM2B2DZE

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/IM2B2DZEN4MF4QG5TWIN7JI3PX \
  | 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: 43341d0f246f185e40dd9d90dfa51b7de48d9652287e765b3cf8d0d73450521d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f48a4e2cf9752a1ffa3b7401e275ed3b5b8fdfcbffbe3febc732d1708e4822a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T10:21:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a974bad6f00a58544fa4077a76a1fd7022cb28de0afed6627bf28f036ed3e130"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}