Pith Number

pith:QM3VBRWE

pith:2017:QM3VBRWE5VGBZXINJ7FL5Z4WBA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The ANTS problem

Amos Korman (IRIF, GANG), Ofer Feinerman

arxiv:1701.02555 v1 · 2017-01-10 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QM3VBRWE5VGBZXINJ7FL5Z4WBA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:03.991424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

833750c6c4ed4c1cdd0d4fcabee7960814ecac24a7f50cb5472b4159b547b231

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.02555 · arxiv_version: 1701.02555v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.02555 · pith_short_12: QM3VBRWE5VGB · pith_short_16: QM3VBRWE5VGBZXIN · pith_short_8: QM3VBRWE

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/QM3VBRWE5VGBZXINJ7FL5Z4WBA \
  | 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: 833750c6c4ed4c1cdd0d4fcabee7960814ecac24a7f50cb5472b4159b547b231

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3217d936000b65ccc16e488ab0c12bf7aca8c20437c8864514fe423487625cb9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-10T12:38:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7a9ba0ab14683a89928448429da8e88aba3182b1c134c3da1ab39278f302f2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.02555",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}