Pith Number

pith:USCEJKRG

pith:2017:USCEJKRGDQTYV2T74ICWCHNBLW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Improving the Pe\~na-Prieto "KSD" procedure

Ricardo Maronna

arxiv:1708.03196 v1 · 2017-08-10 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USCEJKRGDQTYV2T74ICWCHNBLW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:14.507440Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a48444aa261c278aea7fe205611da15d8720a787b4d35900b1923da926101527

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03196 · arxiv_version: 1708.03196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03196 · pith_short_12: USCEJKRGDQTY · pith_short_16: USCEJKRGDQTYV2T7 · pith_short_8: USCEJKRG

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/USCEJKRGDQTYV2T74ICWCHNBLW \
  | 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: a48444aa261c278aea7fe205611da15d8720a787b4d35900b1923da926101527

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec2cbc5cf63a6398236169bf78f1e48a0ced1322eef1984cf7cff16910cc73b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-10T13:00:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7030199033eaba1d6254326d8daf0a447807bb0025b40b1db983bab5a2ed1167"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}