Pith Number

pith:WSHTWKQI

pith:2026:WSHTWKQISCRX3AI2DV4ENWYZAA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scaling Author Identity Disambiguation to the World of Code: A Methodology

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arxiv:2607.06920 v1 · 2026-07-08 · cs.SE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSHTWKQISCRX3AI2DV4ENWYZAA}

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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	2026-07-09T00:19:40.018959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b48f3b2a0890a37d811a1d7846db190016c14faf24bdfbaa8f4ce544803c5d3f

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.06920 · arxiv_version: 2607.06920v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.06920 · pith_short_12: WSHTWKQISCRX · pith_short_16: WSHTWKQISCRX3AI2 · pith_short_8: WSHTWKQI

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/WSHTWKQISCRX3AI2DV4ENWYZAA \
  | 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: b48f3b2a0890a37d811a1d7846db190016c14faf24bdfbaa8f4ce544803c5d3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0c373732becfd489c2c3e4f127405fcf2fba5a415323dcf1b79569ef68c6581",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T02:30:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c689fa4fb68643fa635623bd39d04cc0706faaf16529f16a7de0d1593a6383e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.06920",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}