Pith Number

pith:XFMU2QN2

pith:2017:XFMU2QN2MZ5CM3SWWYEOX3MGK4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Alejandro Cohen, Asaf Cohen, Muriel Medard, Omer Gurewitz

arxiv:1702.03012 v3 · 2017-02-09 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XFMU2QN2MZ5CM3SWWYEOX3MGK4}

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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	2026-07-05T02:28:46.055731Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9594d41ba667a266e56b608ebed8657151af9d95a8c0de68af03140b5ec19f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03012 · arxiv_version: 1702.03012v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03012 · pith_short_12: XFMU2QN2MZ5C · pith_short_16: XFMU2QN2MZ5CM3SW · pith_short_8: XFMU2QN2

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/XFMU2QN2MZ5CM3SWWYEOX3MGK4 \
  | 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: b9594d41ba667a266e56b608ebed8657151af9d95a8c0de68af03140b5ec19f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "204a6217c9dfb16ce97467bad123718a3d7bf94ae4b84653f91b100b6c736bea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-09T23:19:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7aeaa0fdad6d2c8b903b16d94987da48c3e38ec9173543d1ab716d3c5cca003c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}