Pith Number

pith:VGOBPSNH

pith:2017:VGOBPSNHMEMKIDQKIJVA63QTOL

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Possible and Certain Answers for Queries over Order-Incomplete Data

Antoine Amarilli, Daniel Deutch, Mouhamadou Lamine Ba, Pierre Senellart

arxiv:1707.07222 v2 · 2017-07-22 · cs.DB

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGOBPSNHMEMKIDQKIJVA63QTOL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:59.827122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a99c17c9a76118a40e0a426a0f6e1372e2df2006c98fc8b9a97d42f62d886fda

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.07222 · arxiv_version: 1707.07222v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.07222 · pith_short_12: VGOBPSNHMEMK · pith_short_16: VGOBPSNHMEMKIDQK · pith_short_8: VGOBPSNH

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/VGOBPSNHMEMKIDQKIJVA63QTOL \
  | 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: a99c17c9a76118a40e0a426a0f6e1372e2df2006c98fc8b9a97d42f62d886fda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "306dd2c0f93b4d58d110fabe4a482d2a6184b0293fdbae290a939fdb234bc021",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-22T22:10:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47102404d7ca57dcd4e461ee0283d43fbd7be9ea90f0d9f0b90711b97fd14e2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.07222",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}