Pith Number

pith:PJLXQM6C

pith:2026:PJLXQM6C2D3GSQCYGWJFBW4DTY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Keith Shortridge

arxiv:2605.20714 v1 · 2026-05-20 · astro-ph.IM

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PJLXQM6C2D3GSQCYGWJFBW4DTY}

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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	2026-05-21T01:04:50.462048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a577833c2d0f6694058359250db839e1b2068e55ad67faf307a8394a9eaa083

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.20714 · arxiv_version: 2605.20714v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20714 · pith_short_12: PJLXQM6C2D3G · pith_short_16: PJLXQM6C2D3GSQCY · pith_short_8: PJLXQM6C

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/PJLXQM6C2D3GSQCYGWJFBW4DTY \
  | 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: 7a577833c2d0f6694058359250db839e1b2068e55ad67faf307a8394a9eaa083

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91e15231a27cbc78b3857a10af6a2e467f1826387b2a6238f262f01142090053",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T05:13:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7497e434ae68697e8788c32adab6c2c03397afc3286053af94d913e0ebcef8b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.20714",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}