Pith Number

pith:TYZ3ANBF

pith:2026:TYZ3ANBF2KLYU4PCWJZGTY2XDB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Context Compaction Theory

Allison Bishop, Hayder Tirmazi, Michael Mitzenmacher, Sam Markelon

arxiv:2608.01326 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.DS · cs.AI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TYZ3ANBF2KLYU4PCWJZGTY2XDB}

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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	2026-08-04T02:04:09.910871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e33b03425d2978a71e2b27269e3571858bf93f4837f16f09111856ae62de2d9

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01326 · arxiv_version: 2608.01326v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01326 · pith_short_12: TYZ3ANBF2KLY · pith_short_16: TYZ3ANBF2KLYU4PC · pith_short_8: TYZ3ANBF

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/TYZ3ANBF2KLYU4PCWJZGTY2XDB \
  | 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: 9e33b03425d2978a71e2b27269e3571858bf93f4837f16f09111856ae62de2d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dfc767a18eb91c8bb8488b260714c6b4eb581168ec80c990d31861c2ed991700",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T15:45:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00dc06c5b9dcd7351cb0080d9be30bfcf506ae7229de591eaa31423aabc04240"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01326",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}