Pith Number

pith:NZQBV4ZK

pith:2011:NZQBV4ZKICHEDYBJ4FNIB7SSJX

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Ronit Bustin, Shlomo Shamai

arxiv:1106.1017 v2 · 2011-06-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NZQBV4ZKICHEDYBJ4FNIB7SSJX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:10.500586Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e601af32a408e41e029e15a80fe524de974299c07f0a65b582d78e6f29db1d4

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.1017 · arxiv_version: 1106.1017v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.1017 · pith_short_12: NZQBV4ZKICHE · pith_short_16: NZQBV4ZKICHEDYBJ · pith_short_8: NZQBV4ZK

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/NZQBV4ZKICHEDYBJ4FNIB7SSJX \
  | 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: 6e601af32a408e41e029e15a80fe524de974299c07f0a65b582d78e6f29db1d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3781979d4419cca927b20249e47d4b5cfcf5a2087b23ee66723f9c75710e74c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-06T11:07:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f20af6e05c76a75ea6d6d8d27eadbf44fed85b4c7401f6cd6f8a887cdcaf6524"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.1017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}