Pith Number

pith:M5SB3JWG

pith:2015:M5SB3JWGBCEEXXFBLEJJTFBB5X

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Why scientific publications should be anonymous

Paul H. P. Hanel

arxiv:1512.05382 v1 · 2015-12-16 · cs.DL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M5SB3JWGBCEEXXFBLEJJTFBB5X}

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:10.173017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67641da6c608884bdca15912999421eddbda4ebafe76cc641eef1167e37d6201

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.05382 · arxiv_version: 1512.05382v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.05382 · pith_short_12: M5SB3JWGBCEE · pith_short_16: M5SB3JWGBCEEXXFB · pith_short_8: M5SB3JWG

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/M5SB3JWGBCEEXXFBLEJJTFBB5X \
  | 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: 67641da6c608884bdca15912999421eddbda4ebafe76cc641eef1167e37d6201

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf0cdb6a7f46ad4e9f09dc05d9b7aac93f3db5ac5faa97f3d664f1af4e167dc9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-16T21:39:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d0dabc41047dac12bc565c4fb0dfce7d9f90a2e96c2d16ef8c2b2d25fff260a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.05382",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}