Pith Number

pith:MKCTYS5A

pith:2017:MKCTYS5A555GZHCT5EJSPGA4OC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A More Sensitive Context

Christopher J. Banks, Ian Stark

arxiv:1702.03288 v1 · 2017-02-10 · cs.LO

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MKCTYS5A555GZHCT5EJSPGA4OC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:58.296562Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62853c4ba0ef7a6c9c53e91327981c70b45cbe26d4932ad11362334523e8e603

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03288 · arxiv_version: 1702.03288v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03288 · pith_short_12: MKCTYS5A555G · pith_short_16: MKCTYS5A555GZHCT · pith_short_8: MKCTYS5A

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/MKCTYS5A555GZHCT5EJSPGA4OC \
  | 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: 62853c4ba0ef7a6c9c53e91327981c70b45cbe26d4932ad11362334523e8e603

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a1fc3794ed14b5633dbcfdfbb038eae286137fd4561da0496922d321fdf85ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-10T18:59:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b9f53d7200e9447766902abebaa549e39c11cf17b7e16f783c0df3a78b58a0b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03288",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}