Pith Number

pith:Z6YIPLZJ

pith:2015:Z6YIPLZJ7KRILC7BMFIP6EQV6K

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The choice: evaluating and selecting scientific proposals

Antonio Navarra

arxiv:1504.05315 v1 · 2015-04-21 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z6YIPLZJ7KRILC7BMFIP6EQV6K}

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:14.558906Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfb087af29faa2858be16150ff1215f2bac4f604e9cad61a775250df2a9f26e2

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.05315 · arxiv_version: 1504.05315v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.05315 · pith_short_12: Z6YIPLZJ7KRI · pith_short_16: Z6YIPLZJ7KRILC7B · pith_short_8: Z6YIPLZJ

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/Z6YIPLZJ7KRILC7BMFIP6EQV6K \
  | 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: cfb087af29faa2858be16150ff1215f2bac4f604e9cad61a775250df2a9f26e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c82d4a2b2f7209804ba32301440bab4dd5b6d0df620adf4c08dcc0260424833",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-21T06:04:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4cb95596ccbcff95898cde3f0fed58adafbd915e2b17dadf3fde5d843d6e2607"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.05315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}