Pith Number

pith:VBWIRMG4

pith:2024:VBWIRMG4T45KS3VMAHFFXQZLSX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Learning about informativeness

Wanying Huang

arxiv:2406.05299 v2 · 2024-06-07 · econ.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBWIRMG4T45KS3VMAHFFXQZLSX}

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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	2026-07-05T11:28:30.247355Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a86c88b0dc9f3aa96eac01ca5bc32b95c02f91dc24c1ce7eae725cbc4179d15c

Aliases

arxiv: 2406.05299 · arxiv_version: 2406.05299v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.05299 · pith_short_12: VBWIRMG4T45K · pith_short_16: VBWIRMG4T45KS3VM · pith_short_8: VBWIRMG4

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/VBWIRMG4T45KS3VMAHFFXQZLSX \
  | 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: a86c88b0dc9f3aa96eac01ca5bc32b95c02f91dc24c1ce7eae725cbc4179d15c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6312955893abe4df9f30963b148b8542494dec89a367a9ae887d52c4986acd29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-07T23:53:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "823d12c57e0088c08d4351a34551b2e6eb4aecfedcb786652b792e2b1335e65a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2406.05299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}