Pith Number

pith:WJQY5WC6

pith:2011:WJQY5WC6KYM3FD73NMTZE5Y5ZH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Misleading Stars: What Cannot Be Measured in the Internet?

Gilles Tredan, Stefan Schmid, Yvonne Anne Pignolet

arxiv:1105.5236 v3 · 2011-05-26 · cs.NI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WJQY5WC6KYM3FD73NMTZE5Y5ZH}

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:42.905167Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2618ed85e5619b28ffb6b2792771dc9cb576ade7664462f7b13f139d6c7d101

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.5236 · arxiv_version: 1105.5236v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.5236 · pith_short_12: WJQY5WC6KYM3 · pith_short_16: WJQY5WC6KYM3FD73 · pith_short_8: WJQY5WC6

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/WJQY5WC6KYM3FD73NMTZE5Y5ZH \
  | 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: b2618ed85e5619b28ffb6b2792771dc9cb576ade7664462f7b13f139d6c7d101

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f2b7d157404b6f7ee7c54b4e82de947318f7f46411ae12c2c3a3e1d0e3f2e48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-26T09:06:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b6c46bf0a2bb359d83e8fc02100ea09b49eeb6199623a79c659286fdf163e03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.5236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}