Pith Number

pith:XN7NJGVM

pith:2014:XN7NJGVMQWGYC33W2QP4WUBBR4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The pilgrim process

Peter McCullagh, Walter Dempsey

arxiv:1412.1490 v3 · 2014-12-03 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XN7NJGVMQWGYC33W2QP4WUBBR4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:25.181475Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb7ed49aac858d816f76d41fcb50218f12858bc32fe8d0e3b7afcf0725efd4bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.1490 · arxiv_version: 1412.1490v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.1490 · pith_short_12: XN7NJGVMQWGY · pith_short_16: XN7NJGVMQWGYC33W · pith_short_8: XN7NJGVM

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/XN7NJGVMQWGYC33W2QP4WUBBR4 \
  | 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: bb7ed49aac858d816f76d41fcb50218f12858bc32fe8d0e3b7afcf0725efd4bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8fd791bf8080b3f03c8a67460421443647b1eefcedcb8cd454d41b4ebb7fdda",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-03T21:05:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "404ab064f505cd79349d3138040f4431bc531b98f9378ed389a92d9b7e36fb01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.1490",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}