Pith Number

pith:VNHS57AR

pith:2010:VNHS57ARY2KZNGKGW4466UZLUG

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Business Mereology: Imaginative Definitions of Insourcing and Outsourcing Transformations

J.A. Bergstra, S.F.M. van Vlijmen

arxiv:1012.5739 v1 · 2010-12-28 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNHS57ARY2KZNGKGW4466UZLUG}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:32:21.671126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab4f2efc11c695969946b739ef532ba19c6c75f2c80cfbf81a5637639322d3ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.5739 · arxiv_version: 1012.5739v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.5739 · pith_short_12: VNHS57ARY2KZ · pith_short_16: VNHS57ARY2KZNGKG · pith_short_8: VNHS57AR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VNHS57ARY2KZNGKGW4466UZLUG \
  | 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: ab4f2efc11c695969946b739ef532ba19c6c75f2c80cfbf81a5637639322d3ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42b3016a3be477839b3bc69acb4e58f2bc66c7d9aa7a9d3492a0d06a0ca718db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-28T11:28:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da49372e1b33ba4c3b73dd3fb56030ede5c9c4dcd83964c2c769f69680497742"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.5739",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}