Pith Number

pith:JKE5WGZ2

pith:2022:JKE5WGZ2UMZSZE4UWZP4FHMROO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Information Velocity of Packet-Erasure Links

Anatoly Khina, Elad Domanovitz, Tal Philosof

arxiv:2201.04257 v2 · 2022-01-12 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JKE5WGZ2UMZSZE4UWZP4FHMROO}

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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	2026-07-05T03:48:49.194253Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a89db1b3aa3332c9394b65fc29d9173b1ed522c1ab00060488dc2ef9ba06d30

Aliases

arxiv: 2201.04257 · arxiv_version: 2201.04257v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2201.04257 · pith_short_12: JKE5WGZ2UMZS · pith_short_16: JKE5WGZ2UMZSZE4U · pith_short_8: JKE5WGZ2

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/JKE5WGZ2UMZSZE4UWZP4FHMROO \
  | 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: 4a89db1b3aa3332c9394b65fc29d9173b1ed522c1ab00060488dc2ef9ba06d30

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79b7d8fc16bd12b387e192de7034aaf2673a7ab018b150809b9dfe6c6c0acb1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2022-01-12T01:02:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a79f0f34775b7c2fe26ed1151aa74ede34fde24ca6e5ccd6c2c95c12a260312"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2201.04257",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}