Pith Number

pith:WWCMX42Y

pith:2016:WWCMX42YF43HACTRG4CLQRSF5P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Serving by local consensus in the public service location game

Hai-Jun Zhou, Yi-Fan Sun

arxiv:1603.07481 v1 · 2016-03-24 · physics.soc-ph · cs.CY · cs.GT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WWCMX42YF43HACTRG4CLQRSF5P}

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:20.776592Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b584cbf3582f36700a713704b84645ebffd8d1965c53c248d051aa1dabef4046

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.07481 · arxiv_version: 1603.07481v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.07481 · pith_short_12: WWCMX42YF43H · pith_short_16: WWCMX42YF43HACTR · pith_short_8: WWCMX42Y

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/WWCMX42YF43HACTRG4CLQRSF5P \
  | 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: b584cbf3582f36700a713704b84645ebffd8d1965c53c248d051aa1dabef4046

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6432f7c73b1a827f7ad7eb455928f27efe633f6d9d12c2942008f83d191a1b03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-24T08:58:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09dcef174fa308ce72db5f144df819bde5c369d83449b3fe3e6c6cbe3b5c43af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.07481",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}