Pith Number

pith:VVNFHDZP

pith:1998:VVNFHDZPKG3DBTA7SRNV4KDGWR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Model-Based Diagnosis using Structured System Descriptions

A. Darwiche

arxiv:cs/9806101 v1 · 1998-06-01 · cs.AI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVNFHDZPKG3DBTA7SRNV4KDGWR}

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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	2026-05-18T02:37:36.601104Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad5a538f2f51b630cc1f945b5e2866b47b31b8c1b4276c4f6e27252f43c69024

Aliases

arxiv: cs/9806101 · arxiv_version: cs/9806101v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9806101 · pith_short_12: VVNFHDZPKG3D · pith_short_16: VVNFHDZPKG3DBTA7 · pith_short_8: VVNFHDZP

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/VVNFHDZPKG3DBTA7SRNV4KDGWR \
  | 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: ad5a538f2f51b630cc1f945b5e2866b47b31b8c1b4276c4f6e27252f43c69024

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc467d85affecd32867e10e8f3756705c292ec8bcd2100a5abb9f6163b87b9c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-01T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f05a92ef2f3f7e3cb3ebdd75bc2f240dec33f3bf798e60855a9dda0fee72f5c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/9806101",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}