Pith Number

pith:XUIW2ZL5

pith:2017:XUIW2ZL5L5SRTTOVUANRGCLHQV

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The Internet of Battle Things

Alexander Kott, Ananthram Swami, Bruce J West

arxiv:1712.08980 v1 · 2017-12-25 · cs.CY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XUIW2ZL5L5SRTTOVUANRGCLHQV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:14.692554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd116d657d5f6519cdd5a01b130967856f466ae9ccf961183d6849bb0f33dc24

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08980 · arxiv_version: 1712.08980v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08980 · pith_short_12: XUIW2ZL5L5SR · pith_short_16: XUIW2ZL5L5SRTTOV · pith_short_8: XUIW2ZL5

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/XUIW2ZL5L5SRTTOVUANRGCLHQV \
  | 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: bd116d657d5f6519cdd5a01b130967856f466ae9ccf961183d6849bb0f33dc24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e6d21407ec7e2dcf2c47bd2cc2bae16ef3a84c139096d3e48e9e766d9945904",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-25T01:03:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f6b2a213e98db520b871e7f7df140fbc813412a1d7037980c0cc906f36b1617"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08980",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}