Pith Number

pith:Z4ATRW3J

pith:2017:Z4ATRW3JQCDDAU5E5BWYK6VBGZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Time Dimension of Science: Connecting the Past to the Future

Dashun Wang, Yian Yin

arxiv:1704.04657 v2 · 2017-04-15 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z4ATRW3JQCDDAU5E5BWYK6VBGZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:31.268426Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf0138db6980863053a4e86d857aa136632b41bf3e951fdfefc488aa54db1395

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04657 · arxiv_version: 1704.04657v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04657 · pith_short_12: Z4ATRW3JQCDD · pith_short_16: Z4ATRW3JQCDDAU5E · pith_short_8: Z4ATRW3J

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/Z4ATRW3JQCDDAU5E5BWYK6VBGZ \
  | 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: cf0138db6980863053a4e86d857aa136632b41bf3e951fdfefc488aa54db1395

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "747b34910cef954621e10755ffbfd96c4f2705fce39e4a827255d85161633f5e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-15T16:27:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4b4a84c1960371bd09e2e181a083149b2f555ee2a1c3c219814af7e176d2bb2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04657",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}