Pith Number

pith:IWVI5TPE

pith:2016:IWVI5TPE445UJOUQTRSIC2FQA3

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Milad Ghaznavi, Nashid Shahriar, Raouf Boutaba, Reaz Ahmed

arxiv:1601.00751 v1 · 2016-01-05 · cs.NI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWVI5TPE445UJOUQTRSIC2FQA3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:31.744390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45aa8ecde4e73b44ba909c648168b006db80a7441569e2e710f8b20321e3166d

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.00751 · arxiv_version: 1601.00751v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.00751 · pith_short_12: IWVI5TPE445U · pith_short_16: IWVI5TPE445UJOUQ · pith_short_8: IWVI5TPE

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/IWVI5TPE445UJOUQTRSIC2FQA3 \
  | 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: 45aa8ecde4e73b44ba909c648168b006db80a7441569e2e710f8b20321e3166d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d669981dc20d7ce90629e841c4c137a034213568e99e5bb3108d79a64ceee923",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-05T07:09:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c2d49c6cd1dde60047a1e65a53e1d4ce9655f5ca4197ffa842db1fe4653253c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.00751",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}