Pith Number

pith:LBVKTPYU

pith:2005:LBVKTPYUGVPXYOJIS5N5EVYWSE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Alex Szalay, Ani Thakar, Jim Gray, Maria Nieto-Santisteban, Nolan Li, William OMullane

arxiv:cs/0502072 v1 · 2005-02-17 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LBVKTPYUGVPXYOJIS5N5EVYWSE}

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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	2026-07-04T14:24:52.816628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

586aa9bf14355f7c3928975bd2571691399f654c7114554c944d21e92fc690c0

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0502072 · arxiv_version: cs/0502072v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0502072 · pith_short_12: LBVKTPYUGVPX · pith_short_16: LBVKTPYUGVPXYOJI · pith_short_8: LBVKTPYU

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/LBVKTPYUGVPXYOJIS5N5EVYWSE \
  | 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: 586aa9bf14355f7c3928975bd2571691399f654c7114554c944d21e92fc690c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d80ac44dfa46bf1907f3b26f6c560bc2e07bc4b6c32dec1e2a69f212e14011fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2005-02-17T01:55:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6e69f34a71d3126e7ea2163a9733f1e247f965ec961d9fad2e4710227507e84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0502072",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}