Pith Number

pith:JIP22BAJ

pith:2017:JIP22BAJ7M7MLSK44JBDOCT6S3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Artemy Kolchinsky, Can Gokler, David Wolpert, Iman Marvian, Kevin Thompson, Oles Shtanko, Peter Shor, Seth Lloyd, Zi-Wen Liu

arxiv:1705.09598 v1 · 2017-05-26 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JIP22BAJ7M7MLSK44JBDOCT6S3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:38.273157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a1fad0409fb3ec5c95ce242370a7e96c408038c4424aca9f646626b07c0ae61

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09598 · arxiv_version: 1705.09598v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09598 · pith_short_12: JIP22BAJ7M7M · pith_short_16: JIP22BAJ7M7MLSK4 · pith_short_8: JIP22BAJ

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/JIP22BAJ7M7MLSK44JBDOCT6S3 \
  | 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: 4a1fad0409fb3ec5c95ce242370a7e96c408038c4424aca9f646626b07c0ae61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "542ce05e6664ad8cb1cf2ef09d136fbe3fff1fdda5386590617bab0d00c2e2bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-26T14:34:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b433a3b66e996f2fd2838e448a4fe4f1e7314d3edafd870ba3a40eccb3209c79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09598",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}