Pith Number

pith:YJLN55TG

pith:2009:YJLN55TGWHCV2FGZKB6ST6LONM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rumors in a Network: Who's the Culprit?

Devavrat Shah, Tauhid Zaman

arxiv:0909.4370 v2 · 2009-09-24 · stat.ML · stat.AP

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:22.265716Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c256def666b1c55d14d9507d29f96e6b2bf21e94ab9f42b6ca6e10b90ab25cad

Aliases

arxiv: 0909.4370 · arxiv_version: 0909.4370v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0909.4370 · pith_short_12: YJLN55TGWHCV · pith_short_16: YJLN55TGWHCV2FGZ · pith_short_8: YJLN55TG

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/YJLN55TGWHCV2FGZKB6ST6LONM \
  | 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: c256def666b1c55d14d9507d29f96e6b2bf21e94ab9f42b6ca6e10b90ab25cad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d8fa747931fc3bac121888ed911135d1b2c1b7564f98ee5833a1e5f4606130c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2009-09-24T17:45:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a07a3f0f8b7e6845029f483fd45ae75deb0e1ebd0b240df85911d9b78497205d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0909.4370",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}