Pith Number

pith:K6BPNS4Q

pith:2011:K6BPNS4QWTEPSXGJ3Y2R4DNGP4

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Structured Sparse Aggregation

Daniel Percival

arxiv:1111.4494 v1 · 2011-11-18 · stat.ME

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K6BPNS4QWTEPSXGJ3Y2R4DNGP4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:08:03.208223Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5782f6cb90b4c8f95cc9de351e0da67f395976acf38470c83a3f581ca680bd1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.4494 · arxiv_version: 1111.4494v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.4494 · pith_short_12: K6BPNS4QWTEP · pith_short_16: K6BPNS4QWTEPSXGJ · pith_short_8: K6BPNS4Q

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/K6BPNS4QWTEPSXGJ3Y2R4DNGP4 \
  | 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: 5782f6cb90b4c8f95cc9de351e0da67f395976acf38470c83a3f581ca680bd1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c93a531ff151a1c7fc1279b9a74688fcd26585e337713fee3d87060b834c05e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-18T21:29:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b0132764ae03937971b11b264d025f78dfa4183588d81e78410e8ba0a294c4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.4494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}