Pith Number

pith:OXJ3OXN3

pith:2016:OXJ3OXN3MCKR73UBET2RCKJWPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

#FoundThem - 21st Century Pre-Search and Post-Detection SETI Protocols for Social and Digital Media

Alexander Scholz, Duncan Forgan

arxiv:1605.02947 v1 · 2016-05-10 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OXJ3OXN3MCKR73UBET2RCKJWPM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:03.582453Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

75d3b75dbb60951fee8124f51129367b06efcf844231f7390e1aa0d1c72f9c3b

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.02947 · arxiv_version: 1605.02947v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.02947 · pith_short_12: OXJ3OXN3MCKR · pith_short_16: OXJ3OXN3MCKR73UB · pith_short_8: OXJ3OXN3

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/OXJ3OXN3MCKR73UBET2RCKJWPM \
  | 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: 75d3b75dbb60951fee8124f51129367b06efcf844231f7390e1aa0d1c72f9c3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54bbd344cb466e506c9bf74900b5d68c21db965c94975af10d0e2c9ffac1683e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-10T11:33:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b37c686cefe7981dc23220ac5de152e90a3aa9050b6d921d828092cdf7215644"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.02947",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}