Pith Number

pith:SECL3SMU

pith:2023:SECL3SMU2EVR2DLTWLXTU3TNKX

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On the Promise and Pitfalls of Optimizing Embodied Carbon

David Irwin, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy

arxiv:2306.15816 v1 · 2023-06-27 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SECL3SMU2EVR2DLTWLXTU3TNKX}

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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	2026-07-05T06:25:44.719585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9104bdc994d12b1d0d73b2ef3a6e6d55fb896fe55900732704891f81a367b100

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.15816 · arxiv_version: 2306.15816v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.15816 · pith_short_12: SECL3SMU2EVR · pith_short_16: SECL3SMU2EVR2DLT · pith_short_8: SECL3SMU

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/SECL3SMU2EVR2DLTWLXTU3TNKX \
  | 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: 9104bdc994d12b1d0d73b2ef3a6e6d55fb896fe55900732704891f81a367b100

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f78cd89010107a177c80955d189db4296927b7b51036d84fdfbc25ce3fcb9b11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-27T22:20:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b7e633e4a247be4fbdbf2eb769072b2946795c8a0a05a2f18a8d958b293fe27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.15816",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}