Pith Number

pith:JWDVO6U5

pith:2026:JWDVO6U54IOAW5X5FWVCYEHRM6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Implicit representations are dead. Long live explicit primitives!

Andras Jakab, Daniel Rueckert, Maik Dannecker, Nil Stolt-Ans\'o, Wenqi Huang

arxiv:2608.10001 v1 · 2026-08-07 · eess.IV · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWDVO6U54IOAW5X5FWVCYEHRM6}

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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	2026-08-12T00:22:34.607409Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d87577a9de21c0b76fd2daa2c10f167822702cff7d9d65c1e4a03d0f81e3191

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10001 · arxiv_version: 2608.10001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10001 · pith_short_12: JWDVO6U54IOA · pith_short_16: JWDVO6U54IOAW5X5 · pith_short_8: JWDVO6U5

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/JWDVO6U54IOAW5X5FWVCYEHRM6 \
  | 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: 4d87577a9de21c0b76fd2daa2c10f167822702cff7d9d65c1e4a03d0f81e3191

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d848db4bbcb6ae26a4bfcefb9daf59d6cf2fced22b934706360ae47abb1c6684",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.IV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T15:30:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5eed58fd0475ced28fe3f27086cdcf3e69628f066cba0476ffe9b0f9116197e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}