Pith Number

pith:U423SHJD

pith:2011:U423SHJDF3BIR76R6RI4TLHQJ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Case for a Global Information Network

Maximilian Ott, Yan Shvartzshnaider

arxiv:1104.2134 v1 · 2011-04-12 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U423SHJDF3BIR76R6RI4TLHQJ4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:35.856763Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a735b91d232ec288ffd1f451c9acf04f23ed4b13104293869c12909b23834475

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.2134 · arxiv_version: 1104.2134v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.2134 · pith_short_12: U423SHJDF3BI · pith_short_16: U423SHJDF3BIR76R · pith_short_8: U423SHJD

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/U423SHJDF3BIR76R6RI4TLHQJ4 \
  | 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: a735b91d232ec288ffd1f451c9acf04f23ed4b13104293869c12909b23834475

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7132ba9bd1ef4b31191ef8e35cff51f39928561c5ed33e24c577788f5e94548",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-12T08:21:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "321d65acca8e22717bbeb8e7ddc971de493df3f8bd2dc0c11820ad2016a72d0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.2134",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}