Pith Number

pith:SNGBSNGZ

pith:2017:SNGBSNGZKZVCYWUE7YDMAECRJO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Ellery Wulczyn, Florian Lemmerich, Jure Leskovec, Leila Zia, Markus Strohmaier, Philipp Singer, Robert West

arxiv:1702.05379 v2 · 2017-02-17 · cs.SI · cs.DL · cs.HC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNGBSNGZKZVCYWUE7YDMAECRJO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:36.701583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

934c1934d9566a2c5a84fe06c010514b8554ce14821943c5a2c7319b0e6b52ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05379 · arxiv_version: 1702.05379v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05379 · pith_short_12: SNGBSNGZKZVC · pith_short_16: SNGBSNGZKZVCYWUE · pith_short_8: SNGBSNGZ

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/SNGBSNGZKZVCYWUE7YDMAECRJO \
  | 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: 934c1934d9566a2c5a84fe06c010514b8554ce14821943c5a2c7319b0e6b52ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a17114172d44e7f4ee4ef695a38c36c8e826e476aab83fb1f623768e124e8f76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-17T15:16:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27a076baa49bbe840229ec10349d871e97691e57f31f95d392c2c0600464d6b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05379",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}