Pith Number

pith:OUZQPECY

pith:2019:OUZQPECYHOGARXVBU4EQLX5G5U

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Gopal Krishna Kamath, P. R. Kumar, Rahul Singh

arxiv:1908.01119 v1 · 2019-08-03 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OUZQPECYHOGARXVBU4EQLX5G5U}

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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	2026-07-04T23:51:27.395872Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

75330790583b8c08dea1a70905dfa6ed058aab47e463a472081e487c138bbf1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.01119 · arxiv_version: 1908.01119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.01119 · pith_short_12: OUZQPECYHOGA · pith_short_16: OUZQPECYHOGARXVB · pith_short_8: OUZQPECY

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/OUZQPECYHOGARXVBU4EQLX5G5U \
  | 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: 75330790583b8c08dea1a70905dfa6ed058aab47e463a472081e487c138bbf1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc672407a355e7d7a43782cda9eca608cb425491d413aeb65f526b5d6ccfbf02",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-03T04:54:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db9104a5f4ff71bf6d2fcddb7a5477b35cdded5bc90d3261165797eca5dd038b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.01119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}