Pith Number

pith:RPCRCU6O

pith:2026:RPCRCU6O2RZT2FVDMMRAU4K5XV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hypergraph backboning

Alec Kirkley, Federico Battiston, Federico Malizia, Helcio Felippe

arxiv:2606.00893 v1 · 2026-05-30 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RPCRCU6O2RZT2FVDMMRAU4K5XV}

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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	2026-06-02T01:04:08.984461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8bc51153ced4733d16a363220a715dbd72c04e6529661ecd929bb0b80d8c397b

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.00893 · arxiv_version: 2606.00893v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.00893 · pith_short_12: RPCRCU6O2RZT · pith_short_16: RPCRCU6O2RZT2FVD · pith_short_8: RPCRCU6O

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/RPCRCU6O2RZT2FVDMMRAU4K5XV \
  | 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: 8bc51153ced4733d16a363220a715dbd72c04e6529661ecd929bb0b80d8c397b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73cfe1de991f22230c32100f6e93a2c7c6f13e319efc87459bb221fa0f4c7ca5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-30T20:57:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d65aeb1c932880b043d9e1c68e94bf8b2985c69cb504d7f8a27af8760cf49d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.00893",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}