Pith Number

pith:UUC4VZSS

pith:2017:UUC4VZSSZ7A2OLDO3WKXDP4GD4

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Szymon Grabowski, Tomasz Kowalski

arxiv:1711.10385 v1 · 2017-11-28 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UUC4VZSSZ7A2OLDO3WKXDP4GD4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:22.323487Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a505cae652cfc1a72c6edd9571bf861f29191e52e7d18b8d06ea5f4695e3835e

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.10385 · arxiv_version: 1711.10385v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10385 · pith_short_12: UUC4VZSSZ7A2 · pith_short_16: UUC4VZSSZ7A2OLDO · pith_short_8: UUC4VZSS

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/UUC4VZSSZ7A2OLDO3WKXDP4GD4 \
  | 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: a505cae652cfc1a72c6edd9571bf861f29191e52e7d18b8d06ea5f4695e3835e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e0b8598540b1686f6b0b6a42dd35abc43282bb917ea4a530f49d7f1ce43047f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T16:34:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5de9c92a646645816e8a9fa61b16d9760b5c2b0dbf6c7254b7cd3b17bafa765"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.10385",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}