Pith Number

pith:RJ3OTQVZ

pith:2026:RJ3OTQVZIL3T4LOBCTYIPPANLI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Global Science Sustains U.S. Innovation

Christopher R. Esposito

arxiv:2605.30435 v1 · 2026-05-28 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RJ3OTQVZIL3T4LOBCTYIPPANLI}

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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	2026-06-01T00:02:10.842342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a76e9c2b942f73e2dc114f087bc0d5a00d3199e6065ce739f747bbd1a4f6795

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30435 · arxiv_version: 2605.30435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30435 · pith_short_12: RJ3OTQVZIL3T · pith_short_16: RJ3OTQVZIL3T4LOB · pith_short_8: RJ3OTQVZ

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/RJ3OTQVZIL3T4LOBCTYIPPANLI \
  | 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: 8a76e9c2b942f73e2dc114f087bc0d5a00d3199e6065ce739f747bbd1a4f6795

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "892f985d81ca3178916f9c49d8f9ec263958dae02467b8475063c6f2d505d452",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T18:02:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c94298f5becab93c23ef132afd410bd121e9ad447461945b63e8f75360d0f8f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}