Pith Number

pith:Q3O5DYSF

pith:2012:Q3O5DYSFNL6UCI2IFO4WDJW4F4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quasi-Succinct Indices

Sebastiano Vigna

arxiv:1206.4300 v1 · 2012-06-19 · cs.IR · cs.DS

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q3O5DYSFNL6UCI2IFO4WDJW4F4}

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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	2026-05-18T03:53:07.419218Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86ddd1e2456afd4123482bb961a6dc2f0819aacaaa807957928f34c8070f071e

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4300 · arxiv_version: 1206.4300v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4300 · pith_short_12: Q3O5DYSFNL6U · pith_short_16: Q3O5DYSFNL6UCI2I · pith_short_8: Q3O5DYSF

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/Q3O5DYSFNL6UCI2IFO4WDJW4F4 \
  | 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: 86ddd1e2456afd4123482bb961a6dc2f0819aacaaa807957928f34c8070f071e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "238532c25ac040750dccd80080230d20b368dc39b1cc6b89cfa9ffa0570db9a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-19T19:47:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edbc894cf70ab2ec68e7c05c4046b816f8564313d90711c3dd54f8b9c05aa1f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4300",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}