Pith Number

pith:NBINID54

pith:2019:NBINID54HY7IKFYRERNYOFTABW

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Yifan Wu, Yiping Ma, Yuqing Kong

arxiv:1903.07379 v1 · 2019-03-18 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NBINID54HY7IKFYRERNYOFTABW}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:01.576170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6850d40fbc3e3e851711245b8716600d88c3e4e3b16d6c376598547586cb4595

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.07379 · arxiv_version: 1903.07379v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.07379 · pith_short_12: NBINID54HY7I · pith_short_16: NBINID54HY7IKFYR · pith_short_8: NBINID54

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/NBINID54HY7IKFYRERNYOFTABW \
  | 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: 6850d40fbc3e3e851711245b8716600d88c3e4e3b16d6c376598547586cb4595

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d21e4bd796d764f239f56c1d6039cd524f0945847956be608feba053bc0a0aea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-18T12:10:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bef675d426f017020753067f0b51c0a00828058f5aaac3ea0a4982305de0432c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.07379",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}