Pith Number

pith:MKY3J4FJ

pith:2017:MKY3J4FJBA4H2QA24ORCTJABR4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Promoting information spreading by using contact memory

Hui Gao, Lei Gao, Lidia A. Braunstein, Panpan Shu, Wei Wang

arxiv:1703.06422 v1 · 2017-03-19 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MKY3J4FJBA4H2QA24ORCTJABR4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:24.478411Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62b1b4f0a908387d401ae3a229a4018f0a3ffb84acbe00e63990b25b217bfe76

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.06422 · arxiv_version: 1703.06422v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.06422 · pith_short_12: MKY3J4FJBA4H · pith_short_16: MKY3J4FJBA4H2QA2 · pith_short_8: MKY3J4FJ

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/MKY3J4FJBA4H2QA24ORCTJABR4 \
  | 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: 62b1b4f0a908387d401ae3a229a4018f0a3ffb84acbe00e63990b25b217bfe76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e12e79ecd34858ca8b05f6ad2b19230bd242335620316105a24f7785118a698c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-19T11:16:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa3958d07f87fe2f0548a43d37054cb1f5c8a11d833d89b590573501ab6e7158"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.06422",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}