Pith Number

pith:WEGSQ6JL

pith:2017:WEGSQ6JLWVNHXOD3PN5PIU4EIE

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Adam Gleave, Christian Steinruecken

arxiv:1701.04047 v1 · 2017-01-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WEGSQ6JLWVNHXOD3PN5PIU4EIE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:47.993998Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b10d28792bb55a7bb87b7b7af453844106fcc6a89e897b353cf3fa0a5472c74f

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.04047 · arxiv_version: 1701.04047v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.04047 · pith_short_12: WEGSQ6JLWVNH · pith_short_16: WEGSQ6JLWVNHXOD3 · pith_short_8: WEGSQ6JL

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/WEGSQ6JLWVNHXOD3PN5PIU4EIE \
  | 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: b10d28792bb55a7bb87b7b7af453844106fcc6a89e897b353cf3fa0a5472c74f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "183eac8713292015f7bd0f4c5278c0d60c539c6018b80960c4205f23e9533c2d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-15T14:17:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8dfc430697b3359a85be091bce846c591c98863290024046cff1724828fb6977"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.04047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}