Pith Number

pith:YNQPV7KA

pith:2026:YNQPV7KAPQGXYPHEXUFOBVU5IU

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On the missing data layer and a potential solution

Francis F Daniel, Francis Perelman, Marian Basti, Mauro Iba\~nez

arxiv:2608.02949 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.AI · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNQPV7KAPQGXYPHEXUFOBVU5IU}

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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	2026-08-05T00:44:10.705896Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c360fafd407c0d7c3ce4bd0ae0d69d45173638b2ba433c9b091e21f70416d510

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02949 · arxiv_version: 2608.02949v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02949 · pith_short_12: YNQPV7KAPQGX · pith_short_16: YNQPV7KAPQGXYPHE · pith_short_8: YNQPV7KA

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/YNQPV7KAPQGXYPHEXUFOBVU5IU \
  | 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: c360fafd407c0d7c3ce4bd0ae0d69d45173638b2ba433c9b091e21f70416d510

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "995bb47626254572a2c7bbf1fb4ba6ada9a92fb99bf74cf7d34fe56d0e35f200",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T23:26:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7cf7250aa9444dce34fd25ba1025a8b846f055ee5c61f75c0a5cfb6c7d7eda17"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02949",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}