Pith Number

pith:QV6W3UEN

pith:2002:QV6W3UENXNEU5ZAJHSGIJW7IAW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Alexander S. Szalay, Ani Thakara, Jim Gray, Tamas Budavari, Tanu Malika

arxiv:cs/0208014 v1 · 2002-08-07 · cs.DC · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QV6W3UENXNEU5ZAJHSGIJW7IAW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:25.161983Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

857d6dd08dbb494ee4093c8c84dbe805a96a23e0c9e3dfb19d7ac2a1898c6db0

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0208014 · arxiv_version: cs/0208014v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0208014 · pith_short_12: QV6W3UENXNEU · pith_short_16: QV6W3UENXNEU5ZAJ · pith_short_8: QV6W3UEN

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/QV6W3UENXNEU5ZAJHSGIJW7IAW \
  | 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: 857d6dd08dbb494ee4093c8c84dbe805a96a23e0c9e3dfb19d7ac2a1898c6db0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51597122d03f8f74a63dbf366aecbc9a3115bafe094ef87841da1d7953431004",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-07T22:58:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87f43d8b746d47f4593ee1d2106ade086bcb1b6e5eb37f3fa8ac44626088f907"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0208014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}