Pith Number

pith:LDXTCOZD

pith:2010:LDXTCOZD3R2L6VTSRMWWPWJFYL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rescaling citations of publications in physics

Claudio Castellano, Filippo Radicchi

arxiv:1012.5314 v2 · 2010-12-23 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LDXTCOZD3R2L6VTSRMWWPWJFYL}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:06.439907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58ef313b23dc74bf56728b2d67d925c2d08a5157770ef5de73641b20cb52a7f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.5314 · arxiv_version: 1012.5314v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.5314 · pith_short_12: LDXTCOZD3R2L · pith_short_16: LDXTCOZD3R2L6VTS · pith_short_8: LDXTCOZD

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/LDXTCOZD3R2L6VTSRMWWPWJFYL \
  | 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: 58ef313b23dc74bf56728b2d67d925c2d08a5157770ef5de73641b20cb52a7f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b54696492f786f8f80e2031fe96ce8386194d60b3ed89059055905b8d4a7d5c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-23T22:37:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36a18af8141a528a233aa738165a5dc0f9f21f5921dd894dba7a848c36c37ada"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.5314",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}