Pith Number

pith:WGZTRLFL

pith:2016:WGZTRLFLAVNV4QXORVY5SNKPV3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Academic Torrents: Scalable Data Distribution

Henry Z. Lo, Joseph Paul Cohen

arxiv:1603.04395 v1 · 2016-03-14 · cs.NI · cs.CY · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WGZTRLFLAVNV4QXORVY5SNKPV3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:06.870533Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1b338acab055b5e42ee8d71d9354faeee0903604f2736eae1a4ee09b390c14c

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.04395 · arxiv_version: 1603.04395v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.04395 · pith_short_12: WGZTRLFLAVNV · pith_short_16: WGZTRLFLAVNV4QXO · pith_short_8: WGZTRLFL

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/WGZTRLFLAVNV4QXORVY5SNKPV3 \
  | 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: b1b338acab055b5e42ee8d71d9354faeee0903604f2736eae1a4ee09b390c14c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73cb171489a3731c0499707b49acb5e80ea4e4d44cb307edd1036c5b5fb29f84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-14T19:08:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f4687c2e2659910dde6eb69c35b1ed70b43f0beac28506c81a02cfad5610c54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.04395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}