Pith Number

pith:WLTZ4HJB

pith:2017:WLTZ4HJBVFS3637CKGNLEI67LE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Twisted Reed-Solomon Codes

Johan Rosenkilde n\'e Nielsen, Peter Beelen, Sven Puchinger

arxiv:1701.01295 v2 · 2017-01-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WLTZ4HJBVFS3637CKGNLEI67LE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:38.174408Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2e79e1d21a965bf6fe2519ab223df59201a64aba29441abce23efd8af01565d

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.01295 · arxiv_version: 1701.01295v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.01295 · pith_short_12: WLTZ4HJBVFS3 · pith_short_16: WLTZ4HJBVFS3637C · pith_short_8: WLTZ4HJB

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/WLTZ4HJBVFS3637CKGNLEI67LE \
  | 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: b2e79e1d21a965bf6fe2519ab223df59201a64aba29441abce23efd8af01565d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f028c1b8f1e95b0f1a7d8bcd1a47bdcf9e71c5346e4d2d4a6679d982781e50c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-05T12:40:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a78269ac5d3f0a70a2033a8d81796781d718dac995da1e05d5cceca4aed4ec8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.01295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}