Pith Number

pith:UMPN5IC4

pith:2015:UMPN5IC45S7O3KXBLNCH6CCOUC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Idle Ants Have a Role

Deborah M. Gordon, Moshe Sulamy, Yehuda Afek

arxiv:1506.07118 v2 · 2015-06-23 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UMPN5IC45S7O3KXBLNCH6CCOUC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:14:26.005278Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a31edea05cecbeedaae15b447f084ea0a839e30b23534182a2bce864813e0360

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.07118 · arxiv_version: 1506.07118v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.07118 · pith_short_12: UMPN5IC45S7O · pith_short_16: UMPN5IC45S7O3KXB · pith_short_8: UMPN5IC4

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/UMPN5IC45S7O3KXBLNCH6CCOUC \
  | 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: a31edea05cecbeedaae15b447f084ea0a839e30b23534182a2bce864813e0360

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "239988ba7e61a8557fca82156f6b8c451bb85fc40ccc216eb335431587716a06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-23T18:06:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2382d7a60a6315b53da08e90be04bce522eb1076cc9f7b6d1501d2a08035ca03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.07118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}