Pith Number

pith:LS6ZCFKR

pith:2017:LS6ZCFKRMGH56ACDD34775HEOZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Fabiana Zollo, Walter Quattrociocchi

arxiv:1706.09494 v2 · 2017-06-28 · cs.SI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LS6ZCFKRMGH56ACDD34775HEOZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:40:39.780174Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5cbd911551618fdf00431ef9fff4e47678e2021c62cf0ab0f7d4bf1d35821405

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.09494 · arxiv_version: 1706.09494v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.09494 · pith_short_12: LS6ZCFKRMGH5 · pith_short_16: LS6ZCFKRMGH56ACD · pith_short_8: LS6ZCFKR

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/LS6ZCFKRMGH56ACDD34775HEOZ \
  | 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: 5cbd911551618fdf00431ef9fff4e47678e2021c62cf0ab0f7d4bf1d35821405

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9752cba99eb32b3118e0b83d428fecdfa3973e64c0c2f5d553dfbd21efa72aaf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-28T21:54:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f52239561a06baf471b3072a6145b7e4098662762a5c9108e5b7f452ec98522"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.09494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}