Pith Number

pith:Z5R5VHTP

pith:2013:Z5R5VHTPSTRGS25LNKFWZW6FIR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Recognizability of Authenticity

Liane Gabora, Madeleine Henderson

arxiv:1308.4707 v3 · 2013-08-20 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z5R5VHTPSTRGS25LNKFWZW6FIR}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:02.585442Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf63da9e6f94e2696bab6a8b6cdbc544432fdc2b4cc6de6649d7f8774c422b0e

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.4707 · arxiv_version: 1308.4707v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.4707 · pith_short_12: Z5R5VHTPSTRG · pith_short_16: Z5R5VHTPSTRGS25L · pith_short_8: Z5R5VHTP

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/Z5R5VHTPSTRGS25LNKFWZW6FIR \
  | 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: cf63da9e6f94e2696bab6a8b6cdbc544432fdc2b4cc6de6649d7f8774c422b0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89d431fcc2e1d98737afbf82408051f766f63b54fc4cb198bfe142f3ce69d8c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-20T07:02:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "91da5584af7feb4b227cf88dc8a700a854125fbbf1358589444147bdb573636b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.4707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}