Pith Number

pith:2IPVG2AX

pith:2017:2IPVG2AX7JW6WVC6QBUUQ4EJUO

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ShortScience.org - Reproducing Intuition

Henry Z. Lo, Joseph Paul Cohen

arxiv:1707.06684 v1 · 2017-07-20 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2IPVG2AX7JW6WVC6QBUUQ4EJUO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:51.968401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d21f536817fa6deb545e8069487089a39f1b5b6e636051484e66925ec5c8d5bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06684 · arxiv_version: 1707.06684v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06684 · pith_short_12: 2IPVG2AX7JW6 · pith_short_16: 2IPVG2AX7JW6WVC6 · pith_short_8: 2IPVG2AX

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/2IPVG2AX7JW6WVC6QBUUQ4EJUO \
  | 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: d21f536817fa6deb545e8069487089a39f1b5b6e636051484e66925ec5c8d5bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4eb087d14ff6e0c48f9cb77742b38d7dde7a2118fdc58b67716b12b2404e017",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-20T19:24:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a499783d3ad996110333112c2c64e74ca6c6bb731be68d6f86fcba55f99e96ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06684",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}