Pith Number

pith:XMCEPMYL

pith:2026:XMCEPMYLO6K3WFWHDOWC7HMXAS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Winston Chou

arxiv:2606.21745 v1 · 2026-06-19 · stat.ME

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XMCEPMYLO6K3WFWHDOWC7HMXAS}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-06-23T01:13:21.351898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb0447b30b7795bb16c71bac2f9d9704a8352bcb85eeaaed4695f3c347fa272c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21745 · arxiv_version: 2606.21745v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21745 · pith_short_12: XMCEPMYLO6K3 · pith_short_16: XMCEPMYLO6K3WFWH · pith_short_8: XMCEPMYL

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/XMCEPMYLO6K3WFWHDOWC7HMXAS \
  | 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: bb0447b30b7795bb16c71bac2f9d9704a8352bcb85eeaaed4695f3c347fa272c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f48f8c4bbc93b3afab7039e32f04496729c3f7e677be63723fe950eda6e57e4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-19T21:02:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb78bf7d4baa10cc44276083b89788aba9940df7d0c0f3bd32cda6ce6074bf3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21745",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}