Pith Number

pith:WEKHBNME

pith:2016:WEKHBNME2ACF4Z535XKA2UHQHC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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arxiv:1609.05355 v1 · 2016-09-17 · math.OC · math.PR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WEKHBNME2ACF4Z535XKA2UHQHC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:26.627881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b11470b584d0045e67bbedd40d50f038ba07562bab7fdb308a8f47711efc3a55

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.05355 · arxiv_version: 1609.05355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.05355 · pith_short_12: WEKHBNME2ACF · pith_short_16: WEKHBNME2ACF4Z53 · pith_short_8: WEKHBNME

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/WEKHBNME2ACF4Z535XKA2UHQHC \
  | 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: b11470b584d0045e67bbedd40d50f038ba07562bab7fdb308a8f47711efc3a55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1448c1cfd21244c3b1ec760b5695003c9429667970652146b7253f72fae8511",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-17T15:48:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "494183c292a46058996b83596dad1343a1aa433e34178c79086fe53699ba55c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.05355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}