Pith Number

pith:OZ3TBR2O

pith:2012:OZ3TBR2OJHSBNBFDKTDNUNQCMM

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arxiv:1210.0530 v4 · 2012-10-01 · cs.MS · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OZ3TBR2OJHSBNBFDKTDNUNQCMM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:00.328375Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

767730c74e49e41684a354c6da36026328d5cf01b5cb5fd6d3c2ca99339a4eac

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.0530 · arxiv_version: 1210.0530v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.0530 · pith_short_12: OZ3TBR2OJHSB · pith_short_16: OZ3TBR2OJHSBNBFD · pith_short_8: OZ3TBR2O

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/OZ3TBR2OJHSBNBFDKTDNUNQCMM \
  | 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: 767730c74e49e41684a354c6da36026328d5cf01b5cb5fd6d3c2ca99339a4eac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "211ed47a6e25724553418226c7fb1a65b2a5f2af3676dce4275e14d7ac84d2aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-01T01:04:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dc6eb04e36e4dfac1d8b17f931ed09f9df6940027fab3cc25bbd4d482f3d775"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.0530",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}