Pith Number

pith:UVNMDN4W

pith:2018:UVNMDN4WSTU2OGRTZVGMEQ7JWV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

To Edge or Not to Edge?

Faria Kalim, Shadi A. Noghabi, Shiv Verma

arxiv:1803.08448 v1 · 2018-03-22 · cs.NI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UVNMDN4WSTU2OGRTZVGMEQ7JWV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:22.834291Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a55ac1b79694e9a71a33cd4cc243e9b549939947bc50442a4bdc55db0d0f827b

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.08448 · arxiv_version: 1803.08448v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.08448 · pith_short_12: UVNMDN4WSTU2 · pith_short_16: UVNMDN4WSTU2OGRT · pith_short_8: UVNMDN4W

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/UVNMDN4WSTU2OGRTZVGMEQ7JWV \
  | 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: a55ac1b79694e9a71a33cd4cc243e9b549939947bc50442a4bdc55db0d0f827b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2efaa08bf6ed13bda89867a3f8aeddc81a8705ea610c40be78578451d6c8d35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-22T16:42:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc330346808072be5112b4345c37c12f4c7cdf3602a1f76aa7388bcc6de5124b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.08448",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}