Pith Number

pith:VEYPZPHT

pith:2019:VEYPZPHTSKJJB54QTT2ILS56CQ

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Alberto Montresor, Anwitaman Datta, Pedro Garcia Lopez

arxiv:1904.13093 v1 · 2019-04-30 · cs.DC · cs.CR · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VEYPZPHTSKJJB54QTT2ILS56CQ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:22.162457Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a930fcbcf3929290f7909cf485cbbe1414233393a08cce6d3aa289db58fd2ec9

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.13093 · arxiv_version: 1904.13093v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.13093 · pith_short_12: VEYPZPHTSKJJ · pith_short_16: VEYPZPHTSKJJB54Q · pith_short_8: VEYPZPHT

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/VEYPZPHTSKJJB54QTT2ILS56CQ \
  | 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: a930fcbcf3929290f7909cf485cbbe1414233393a08cce6d3aa289db58fd2ec9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6bca024fd85d0b6b34a2924ea5155848f6fb4fb01896c0294501674f7cd1302c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-30T07:59:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5081904b61bb18ffa7a902d8bfc6bae1c91ab2141605d438c940683977bb4310"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.13093",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}