Pith Number

pith:RGETLFTZ

pith:2026:RGETLFTZLLCZUAKQFMNVCUJ5SA

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Deforking the World of Code: A Project-Provenance Map that Recovers Cross-Forge Fork Families that Platform Graphs Cannot See

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arxiv:2606.29550 v1 · 2026-06-28 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGETLFTZLLCZUAKQFMNVCUJ5SA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-30T01:18:11.464484Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89893596795ac59a01502b1b51513d902d86d9002dd903b4db47c20a44355f64

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.29550 · arxiv_version: 2606.29550v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.29550 · pith_short_12: RGETLFTZLLCZ · pith_short_16: RGETLFTZLLCZUAKQ · pith_short_8: RGETLFTZ

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/RGETLFTZLLCZUAKQFMNVCUJ5SA \
  | 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: 89893596795ac59a01502b1b51513d902d86d9002dd903b4db47c20a44355f64

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a92071cbe29b0ea163e2c657b24048a8a43d9aba4458de3566ed99a04e807238",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-28T18:25:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c731724c15d55c4dc71f3cd1637a055d16f447eacd0033ca02fcb25cf478344"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.29550",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}