Pith Number

pith:ZLAUXHDK

pith:2017:ZLAUXHDKWJY75VW2342BM5JTCO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Visualization of the Classical Musical Tradition

Yang-Hui He

arxiv:1709.04038 v1 · 2017-09-12 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZLAUXHDKWJY75VW2342BM5JTCO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:15.635063Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cac14b9c6ab271fed6dadf3416753313aaab73d6a07118afdfa4e38512966675

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.04038 · arxiv_version: 1709.04038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.04038 · pith_short_12: ZLAUXHDKWJY7 · pith_short_16: ZLAUXHDKWJY75VW2 · pith_short_8: ZLAUXHDK

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/ZLAUXHDKWJY75VW2342BM5JTCO \
  | 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: cac14b9c6ab271fed6dadf3416753313aaab73d6a07118afdfa4e38512966675

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d30154596e6d2b1073fddbe12d6d188043c35291cd539035ffde55ac417c715d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-12T19:37:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6858609fc6935a83d672ebfb82ce63afd8900ecd4a3fd89c73169b702a37320d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.04038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}