Pith Number

pith:PTPIBFBH

pith:2026:PTPIBFBHLBE4VFYYICCDNIGGUW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Return of the solo author: The changing division of labor in science in the age of generative A

Akira Matsui

arxiv:2607.10780 v1 · 2026-07-12 · cs.CY · cs.DL · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PTPIBFBHLBE4VFYYICCDNIGGUW}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-14T01:21:39.660554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7cde8094275849ca9718408436a0c6a58b467ef496832a0deb2b6bc652f0ad70

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.10780 · arxiv_version: 2607.10780v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.10780 · pith_short_12: PTPIBFBHLBE4 · pith_short_16: PTPIBFBHLBE4VFYY · pith_short_8: PTPIBFBH

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/PTPIBFBHLBE4VFYYICCDNIGGUW \
  | 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: 7cde8094275849ca9718408436a0c6a58b467ef496832a0deb2b6bc652f0ad70

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa579867751bdb0abaf68d58f5397a1551eedf0157d768a512b6320a4c6a0539",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-12T14:17:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e04001ee4a4306d7b7b95dbb120beb8c5cef109c6c22c85d41331b4686237034"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.10780",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}