Pith Number

pith:ZTVI66CE

pith:2018:ZTVI66CEZAH6QBQQJ7VJAEQSCF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Minimum Description Length codes are critical

Matteo Marsili, Ryan John Cubero, Yasser Roudi

arxiv:1809.00652 v2 · 2018-09-03 · stat.ME · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZTVI66CEZAH6QBQQJ7VJAEQSCF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:20.036891Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccea8f7844c80fe806104fea9012121170712af5d479df352fd51601f25c1edf

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.00652 · arxiv_version: 1809.00652v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.00652 · pith_short_12: ZTVI66CEZAH6 · pith_short_16: ZTVI66CEZAH6QBQQ · pith_short_8: ZTVI66CE

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/ZTVI66CEZAH6QBQQJ7VJAEQSCF \
  | 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: ccea8f7844c80fe806104fea9012121170712af5d479df352fd51601f25c1edf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "844acced3dd30caaef7a9ef75d629d648bb1e8f1113dbf9d6200db12b283c366",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-03T16:44:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d389b4751c341f33899b14e6c77ed0163196c189d12c77bd71cc83021b37003c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.00652",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}