Pith Number

pith:MYAK2LZF

pith:2023:MYAK2LZF26ET4MFK2QYS3ATPVP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A modest proposal: explicit support for foundational pluralism

Dominic P. Mulligan, Martin Berger

arxiv:2302.10137 v1 · 2023-02-20 · cs.LO · cs.PL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MYAK2LZF26ET4MFK2QYS3ATPVP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T05:43:33.595459Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6600ad2f25d7893e30aad4312d826fabca6f2c209e0c4476dda90cf58f13b94e

Aliases

arxiv: 2302.10137 · arxiv_version: 2302.10137v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.10137 · pith_short_12: MYAK2LZF26ET · pith_short_16: MYAK2LZF26ET4MFK · pith_short_8: MYAK2LZF

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/MYAK2LZF26ET4MFK2QYS3ATPVP \
  | 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: 6600ad2f25d7893e30aad4312d826fabca6f2c209e0c4476dda90cf58f13b94e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37211afb07dbc6f14ad7b599d5348c46e0e79dd099dc9439c62cf3d6dcc726f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-20T18:13:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e2a7f1d161cbd6fea0e7c108ab11c42f3c29000a83462d817c164a523420285"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2302.10137",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}