Pith Number

pith:QNRMUZME

pith:2026:QNRMUZMEI466ND3WA7IAKUVCVA

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Junle Zhong, Mohamad Assaad, Sreejith Sreekumar

arxiv:2608.11003 v1 · 2026-08-11 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QNRMUZMEI466ND3WA7IAKUVCVA}

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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	2026-08-12T01:23:59.887072Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8362ca6584473de68f7607d00552a2a8202f744656ac6f742f531e4cd0a3943a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11003 · arxiv_version: 2608.11003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11003 · pith_short_12: QNRMUZMEI466 · pith_short_16: QNRMUZMEI466ND3W · pith_short_8: QNRMUZME

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/QNRMUZMEI466ND3WA7IAKUVCVA \
  | 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: 8362ca6584473de68f7607d00552a2a8202f744656ac6f742f531e4cd0a3943a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e664d377a0737c9df20125ad2cbfc76388ed53e506b877836eabe5093f6289f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T14:50:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a41a69e1fcba9d641d7ac79c718ea2196922298f10e7b2d48f180ee0bfb01994"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}