Pith Number

pith:UXPR75JB

pith:2017:UXPR75JBPV53QGCUZFGIT6E6PD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Successive Local and Successive Global Omniscience

Alex Sprintson, Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

arxiv:1702.01773 v2 · 2017-02-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UXPR75JBPV53QGCUZFGIT6E6PD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:38.571215Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5df1ff5217d7bb81854c94c89f89e78e571cf51e2012eff382bde14b7fa5ed3

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01773 · arxiv_version: 1702.01773v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01773 · pith_short_12: UXPR75JBPV53 · pith_short_16: UXPR75JBPV53QGCU · pith_short_8: UXPR75JB

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/UXPR75JBPV53QGCUZFGIT6E6PD \
  | 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: a5df1ff5217d7bb81854c94c89f89e78e571cf51e2012eff382bde14b7fa5ed3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9776e084ec195a804797891c6d71af32eab10daeb18a4d42896613f914b8f135",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-06T19:35:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13b77f5fa12151b24ca7429b1cf54e1ea1462dd2545cf8bbcfc122a5c3185e7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.01773",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}