Pith Number

pith:OGAWPFMH

pith:2017:OGAWPFMHP4NC4F2TFHHQFUJK7S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv

Alberto Pepe, Josh Nicholson, Matteo Cantiello

arxiv:1709.07020 v1 · 2017-09-20 · cs.DL · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OGAWPFMHP4NC4F2TFHHQFUJK7S}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:36.823159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71816795877f1a2e175329cf02d12afca0c82b15a4b7a33deadaf90af01bed5f

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.07020 · arxiv_version: 1709.07020v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.07020 · pith_short_12: OGAWPFMHP4NC · pith_short_16: OGAWPFMHP4NC4F2T · pith_short_8: OGAWPFMH

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/OGAWPFMHP4NC4F2TFHHQFUJK7S \
  | 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: 71816795877f1a2e175329cf02d12afca0c82b15a4b7a33deadaf90af01bed5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f06871983cbdc7cacadde71faa831426f22bc66eb3bd6400df0763d83e29c251",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-20T18:12:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4e1d4dd571b039138088bd0361317b0e13950b969ba15a2a90b72c555a48299"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.07020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}