Pith Number

pith:YXQU4Y4S

pith:2014:YXQU4Y4S57XK4WOLEFZMSRFZYB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-Healing Computation

George Saad, Jared Saia

arxiv:1405.1167 v2 · 2014-05-06 · cs.DC · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YXQU4Y4S57XK4WOLEFZMSRFZYB}

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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	2026-05-18T02:39:23.714470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5e14e6392efeeae59cb2172c944b9c0764ff9cb1b1e70e6f09631e2ac4d65d9

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.1167 · arxiv_version: 1405.1167v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.1167 · pith_short_12: YXQU4Y4S57XK · pith_short_16: YXQU4Y4S57XK4WOL · pith_short_8: YXQU4Y4S

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/YXQU4Y4S57XK4WOLEFZMSRFZYB \
  | 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: c5e14e6392efeeae59cb2172c944b9c0764ff9cb1b1e70e6f09631e2ac4d65d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1176f9b06368ae14b5d9ec1e86298cee76ef680b3ae47230b1299d83a94e477",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-06T06:44:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b66c9f768a86181c69decbd52a8dcce53f65e0aeb75fa5572978ceb02ebe5ee8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.1167",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}