Pith Number

pith:J4QQHC3D

pith:2016:J4QQHC3DPVQ34M4LVMCDS5J7FQ

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Deterministic Graph Exploration with Advice

Andrzej Pelc, Barun Gorain

arxiv:1607.01657 v2 · 2016-07-06 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J4QQHC3DPVQ34M4LVMCDS5J7FQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:33.213380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f21038b637d61be338bab0439753f2c285acc9f90d6ffac08538fbcc43705a5

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.01657 · arxiv_version: 1607.01657v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.01657 · pith_short_12: J4QQHC3DPVQ3 · pith_short_16: J4QQHC3DPVQ34M4L · pith_short_8: J4QQHC3D

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/J4QQHC3DPVQ34M4LVMCDS5J7FQ \
  | 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: 4f21038b637d61be338bab0439753f2c285acc9f90d6ffac08538fbcc43705a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a76dddc335c524ae845466653b7fb656d948322b7cdad521b856207bf2934760",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-06T15:06:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d4b4667108755395fdc3fe76f3f630f7c70ac44221e5a53460ff48e854093f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.01657",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}