Pith Number

pith:T6S4E4Q6

pith:2021:T6S4E4Q6IPZKMXKJE2QUFHJCHB

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Towards Mobile Distributed Ledgers

Anurag Jain, Boi Faltings, Dimitris Chatzopoulos, Pan Hui, Sujit Gujar

arxiv:2101.04825 v1 · 2021-01-13 · cs.DC · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T6S4E4Q6IPZKMXKJE2QUFHJCHB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T02:06:35.327253Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9fa5c2721e43f2a65d4926a1429d22385748fa8f1fab1e1a9f9ef41967ac6dc7

Aliases

arxiv: 2101.04825 · arxiv_version: 2101.04825v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2101.04825 · pith_short_12: T6S4E4Q6IPZK · pith_short_16: T6S4E4Q6IPZKMXKJ · pith_short_8: T6S4E4Q6

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/T6S4E4Q6IPZKMXKJE2QUFHJCHB \
  | 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: 9fa5c2721e43f2a65d4926a1429d22385748fa8f1fab1e1a9f9ef41967ac6dc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59645ac469253fa707801a5c5b1d8d4e4620d8e135e323abd91ae5bc6a03b819",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-01-13T01:26:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d61afe38bfa3fce3b6b050f19cd78860263f6569721cc4cedbd024b00d2e288"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2101.04825",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}