Pith Number

pith:JBNB7JJR

pith:2015:JBNB7JJRQOBZTA2QZ7DXGI5FCJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The user base dynamics of websites

Kartik Ahuja, Mihaela van der Schaar, Simpson Zhang

arxiv:1509.06097 v2 · 2015-09-21 · math.OC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JBNB7JJRQOBZTA2QZ7DXGI5FCJ}

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	2026-05-18T01:28:25.005536Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

485a1fa5318383998350cfc77323a5124f586cf2db65d171ecec2f3154ff886c

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.06097 · arxiv_version: 1509.06097v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.06097 · pith_short_12: JBNB7JJRQOBZ · pith_short_16: JBNB7JJRQOBZTA2Q · pith_short_8: JBNB7JJR

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/JBNB7JJRQOBZTA2QZ7DXGI5FCJ \
  | 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: 485a1fa5318383998350cfc77323a5124f586cf2db65d171ecec2f3154ff886c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "43889202d8a368afdd3a4c4fd16160d1d636f225c0017258b7f97333308623f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-21T02:45:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68432d9435f27de860fd231d74a9abf8d3f0c48e05575deb5a1a22501123a095"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.06097",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}