Pith Number

pith:Y5U2DZV6

pith:2026:Y5U2DZV6CBJNIZ6D2PKOAT3PJU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices

Bhaskar Mitra

arxiv:2606.30984 v1 · 2026-06-29 · cs.IR · cs.CY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y5U2DZV6CBJNIZ6D2PKOAT3PJU}

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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	2026-07-01T00:17:23.440640Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c769a1e6be1052d467c3d3d4e04f6f4d027f8e233466272ee0606dd0cdbd1f8c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.30984 · arxiv_version: 2606.30984v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.30984 · pith_short_12: Y5U2DZV6CBJN · pith_short_16: Y5U2DZV6CBJNIZ6D · pith_short_8: Y5U2DZV6

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/Y5U2DZV6CBJNIZ6D2PKOAT3PJU \
  | 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: c769a1e6be1052d467c3d3d4e04f6f4d027f8e233466272ee0606dd0cdbd1f8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8615f2dc3a5455b87751121b3a9eb3c5db6ed3b7e8869d4ae207a415288b6f1d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-29T23:48:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "311f481fc198a199c7c0717c458e1cd9991015bfd54263b7f1b24b93038265a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.30984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}