Pith Number

pith:MHBY6LWK

pith:2016:MHBY6LWKQ2YG3W3D5BVQBFKW57

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Tackling Corruption With Agents & ICT: A Vision

Biplav Srivastava

arxiv:1701.06426 v1 · 2016-11-20 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MHBY6LWKQ2YG3W3D5BVQBFKW57}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:18.456032Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61c38f2eca86b06ddb63e86b009556efdb9918ee3fa3c59cfd9578f4c786ee31

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06426 · arxiv_version: 1701.06426v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06426 · pith_short_12: MHBY6LWKQ2YG · pith_short_16: MHBY6LWKQ2YG3W3D · pith_short_8: MHBY6LWK

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/MHBY6LWKQ2YG3W3D5BVQBFKW57 \
  | 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: 61c38f2eca86b06ddb63e86b009556efdb9918ee3fa3c59cfd9578f4c786ee31

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50ae775907f6e9c2509fe22dc3c0b4faaf50b32afa31a8e28fefa294ebbb6f65",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-20T16:28:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "075bddffc188f692b0b23af5b2f5a6ec9e633a38fb68d3e19f9a860395f30439"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}