Pith Number

pith:RJ27QEIJ

pith:2018:RJ27QEIJBOC2X3TV4JPTQ4E45F

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Anil K. Jain, Debayan Deb, Jake Kendall, Joshua Engelsma, Kai Cao, Neeta Nain, Tarang Chugh

arxiv:1804.08122 v1 · 2018-04-22 · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RJ27QEIJBOC2X3TV4JPTQ4E45F}

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:49.444758Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a75f811090b85abee75e25f38709ce978205f83e36abfb409b665e340d207be

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.08122 · arxiv_version: 1804.08122v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.08122 · pith_short_12: RJ27QEIJBOC2 · pith_short_16: RJ27QEIJBOC2X3TV · pith_short_8: RJ27QEIJ

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/RJ27QEIJBOC2X3TV4JPTQ4E45F \
  | 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: 8a75f811090b85abee75e25f38709ce978205f83e36abfb409b665e340d207be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb58c63a0bd847814b9dd7b69bea45dcd7294244794aaf86e27329c9212efb61",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-22T15:21:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46a400263d7c06baaa9dc2343835aac4da338039df90099e7852cfc93dfa582f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.08122",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}