Pith Number

pith:RT5AVU3X

pith:2015:RT5AVU3XMSBQMRJYXWW6EIR4FM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Fernando Pedone, Huynh Tu Dang, Marco Canini, Robert Soul\'e

arxiv:1511.04985 v1 · 2015-11-16 · cs.DC · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RT5AVU3XMSBQMRJYXWW6EIR4FM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:26:51.111760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cfa0ad3776483064538bdade2223c2b11a9ebeca39386eece14b6ee5163a970

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.04985 · arxiv_version: 1511.04985v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.04985 · pith_short_12: RT5AVU3XMSBQ · pith_short_16: RT5AVU3XMSBQMRJY · pith_short_8: RT5AVU3X

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/RT5AVU3XMSBQMRJYXWW6EIR4FM \
  | 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: 8cfa0ad3776483064538bdade2223c2b11a9ebeca39386eece14b6ee5163a970

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "685e4f48d0d4b89f99a1077d2e1c2cff0fc38bba0f9963666f32d2a46d6acbbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-16T15:14:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8334f2232b4f9c3ae504d8578ff5479d9ea4b3c5c2005d3f365bbbfa24a5127"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.04985",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}