Pith Number

pith:KVP6JX7S

pith:2011:KVP6JX7SJ7DKL2CBULRPI6KYU3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

IVOA Recommendation: Sky Event Reporting Metadata Version 2.0

Alasdair Allan, Arnold Rots, Frederic Hessman, John Brewer, Joshua Bloom, Matthew Graham, Mike Fitzpatrick, Norman Gray, Przemyslaw Wozniak, Robert Denny, Rob Seaman, Roy Williams, Scott Barthelmy, Szabolcs Marka, Tom Vestrand

arxiv:1110.0523 v1 · 2011-10-03 · astro-ph.IM

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVP6JX7SJ7DKL2CBULRPI6KYU3}

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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	2026-05-17T23:45:41.885192Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

555fe4dff24fc6a5e841a2e2f47958a6cbd463de11173edab1222957553862e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.0523 · arxiv_version: 1110.0523v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.0523 · pith_short_12: KVP6JX7SJ7DK · pith_short_16: KVP6JX7SJ7DKL2CB · pith_short_8: KVP6JX7S

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/KVP6JX7SJ7DKL2CBULRPI6KYU3 \
  | 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: 555fe4dff24fc6a5e841a2e2f47958a6cbd463de11173edab1222957553862e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3dfb38d021dc95f1c2224802cacbf85ce19da42f22dbd8d6470e0990f5c31940",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-03T21:44:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5086b275f24f106ed797c9b7b3a0a911756dafa796c1857422691d76670ae28b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.0523",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}