Pith Number

pith:XQPVKHAO

pith:2016:XQPVKHAOYCU43BXMQORE5ARQXI

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Brendan Lucier, Darrell Hoy, Nicole Immorlica

arxiv:1612.06347 v1 · 2016-12-19 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQPVKHAOYCU43BXMQORE5ARQXI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:42.472307Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc1f551c0ec0a9cd86ec83a24e8230ba129baf728e07ebb93134d1a47c03ae45

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.06347 · arxiv_version: 1612.06347v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.06347 · pith_short_12: XQPVKHAOYCU4 · pith_short_16: XQPVKHAOYCU43BXM · pith_short_8: XQPVKHAO

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/XQPVKHAOYCU43BXMQORE5ARQXI \
  | 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: bc1f551c0ec0a9cd86ec83a24e8230ba129baf728e07ebb93134d1a47c03ae45

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88fbce5f7da4f649a766604021bc73aa21090e4d0bd5c5766081e460cbe3555e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-19T20:47:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6134ae9723f17140f1c5d966a514399023be7e90477abc9e4d92080d95babb0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.06347",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}