Pith Number

pith:QZA3U7N2

pith:2011:QZA3U7N26CY5FZWNFT5SGN6B34

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Dirk Laurie, Marcel Wild, Stephan Wagner, Svante Janson

arxiv:1107.1401 v3 · 2011-07-07 · math.PR · cs.DM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QZA3U7N26CY5FZWNFT5SGN6B34}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:01:56.684619Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8641ba7dbaf0b1d2e6cd2cfb2337c1df24ddb541138bbe5d136c7c4fa15ba635

Aliases

arxiv: 1107.1401 · arxiv_version: 1107.1401v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1107.1401 · pith_short_12: QZA3U7N26CY5 · pith_short_16: QZA3U7N26CY5FZWN · pith_short_8: QZA3U7N2

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/QZA3U7N26CY5FZWNFT5SGN6B34 \
  | 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: 8641ba7dbaf0b1d2e6cd2cfb2337c1df24ddb541138bbe5d136c7c4fa15ba635

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c406976e746f8420cfa0814202142dec99a77f6bd58c57eba4755372ea9e8b66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-07-07T14:19:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "697f4a14552fd6b3cbe8a937e4bedcfcef45a09250fa30340edf7d345859d667"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1107.1401",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}