Pith Number

pith:WBSF6BVF

pith:2012:WBSF6BVF4NURXAW4IS73JISBF7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Compelled to do the right thing

G. Abramson, J. R. Iglesias, M. F. Laguna

arxiv:1212.4029 v1 · 2012-12-17 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI · nlin.AO · physics.comp-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WBSF6BVF4NURXAW4IS73JISBF7}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:21.712532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0645f06a5e3691b82dc44bfb4a2412fe1432bff1ceaafe8d39e2f923d22feab

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4029 · arxiv_version: 1212.4029v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4029 · pith_short_12: WBSF6BVF4NUR · pith_short_16: WBSF6BVF4NURXAW4 · pith_short_8: WBSF6BVF

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/WBSF6BVF4NURXAW4IS73JISBF7 \
  | 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: b0645f06a5e3691b82dc44bfb4a2412fe1432bff1ceaafe8d39e2f923d22feab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5fc3f19004075f8a8019f6c988a6ed86ca74221414aef327c4ca14c5d6f0fd65",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "nlin.AO",
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-17T15:39:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87723b6591cfeba4db1c42e63f9d214fe3cd1305ebcb6c715a9e5ea421e210b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.4029",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}