Pith Number

pith:TMCQL2DF

pith:2011:TMCQL2DFJLKDT2V43CWKUQBXAM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Vadim Zharnitsky, Yuliy Baryshnikov

arxiv:1108.2498 v3 · 2011-08-11 · math.CA · cs.DS · math.DS · math.OC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TMCQL2DFJLKDT2V43CWKUQBXAM}

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:55.025235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b0505e8654ad439eabcd8acaa4037032280e1cee98907b475a06883a136f7c6

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.2498 · arxiv_version: 1108.2498v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.2498 · pith_short_12: TMCQL2DFJLKD · pith_short_16: TMCQL2DFJLKDT2V4 · pith_short_8: TMCQL2DF

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/TMCQL2DFJLKDT2V43CWKUQBXAM \
  | 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: 9b0505e8654ad439eabcd8acaa4037032280e1cee98907b475a06883a136f7c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b76bffb4426e5ca8cca2adebeec889b17c1bac10e9c51628da227273ce676c5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.DS",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-11T19:36:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a63f919ae38d3ee672361ad2d02fdfb4a735c3c12ffa23a9527502642ec35ea2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.2498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}