Pith Number

pith:VCNT57LL

pith:2021:VCNT57LLENDL6SY4EG6KX3D7LY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Alexandru Mahmoud, Dannon Baker, Dimuthu Wannipurage, Enis Afgan, Isuru Ranawaka, Jim Basney, Juleen Graham, Marlon Pierce, Samitha Liyanage, Suresh Marru, Terry Fleury, Yu Ma

arxiv:2107.04172 v1 · 2021-07-09 · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCNT57LLENDL6SY4EG6KX3D7LY}

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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	2026-07-05T02:56:30.417124Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a89b3efd6b2346bf4b1c21bcabec7f5e3d0fc2b8deabe641f2b31165e95bdc43

Aliases

arxiv: 2107.04172 · arxiv_version: 2107.04172v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.04172 · pith_short_12: VCNT57LLENDL · pith_short_16: VCNT57LLENDL6SY4 · pith_short_8: VCNT57LL

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/VCNT57LLENDL6SY4EG6KX3D7LY \
  | 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: a89b3efd6b2346bf4b1c21bcabec7f5e3d0fc2b8deabe641f2b31165e95bdc43

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "628b4d1c13bdd45c30fd852ab6e305dd24e9db6e328c16cdb8f0259d12eb5dbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-07-09T01:46:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ccd0c4f851dd65dc7690498ce6361ca85fee46ca5437d0f62cbd67a11169289"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2107.04172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}