Pith Number

pith:QZI7672X

pith:2015:QZI7672XMDCYG6CI6VMNTKH342

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arxiv:1504.03131 v1 · 2015-04-13 · stat.OT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QZI7672XMDCYG6CI6VMNTKH342}

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:59.130506Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8651ff7f5760c5837848f558d9a8fbe6a505b800ee474075afbcf7a0824f7ecf

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.03131 · arxiv_version: 1504.03131v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.03131 · pith_short_12: QZI7672XMDCY · pith_short_16: QZI7672XMDCYG6CI · pith_short_8: QZI7672X

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/QZI7672XMDCYG6CI6VMNTKH342 \
  | 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: 8651ff7f5760c5837848f558d9a8fbe6a505b800ee474075afbcf7a0824f7ecf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1208e34cf4dd1cd5ff9c88b5bad8a64f62b2842395f3c917168e7665252d5f1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-13T11:14:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "654d5d5a8ca55129d3bc2c76b8cfe50ff8f2b44a0125237b7ba74146b9164e5a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.03131",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}