Pith Number

pith:VDNBJNYU

pith:2018:VDNBJNYUBKJN4IPNLTW5ISNFK6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Path Planning and Navigation Inside Off-World Lava Tubes and Caves

Himangshu Kalita, Jekan Thangavelautham, Steven Morad

arxiv:1803.02818 v1 · 2018-03-07 · cs.RO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDNBJNYUBKJN4IPNLTW5ISNFK6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:47.202496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8da14b7140a92de21ed5cedd449a557bc38dd6a09ccbc678b43a537a9ec95ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.02818 · arxiv_version: 1803.02818v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.02818 · pith_short_12: VDNBJNYUBKJN · pith_short_16: VDNBJNYUBKJN4IPN · pith_short_8: VDNBJNYU

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/VDNBJNYUBKJN4IPNLTW5ISNFK6 \
  | 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: a8da14b7140a92de21ed5cedd449a557bc38dd6a09ccbc678b43a537a9ec95ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8562ba228b552cb7ad416d8e99eb305434caebc749fe15e6f234aec1a5d4e361",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.RO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-07T18:50:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c1a9cdf64065d8fe3d6d14ec719ffb319f9875cf2a57fea86dd9074b1ccd57b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.02818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}