Pith Number

pith:2R4FYVEJ

pith:2026:2R4FYVEJW5A76UFJX2SY7MNCUI

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Stephen M. Watt

arxiv:2606.05466 v1 · 2026-06-03 · cs.PL · cs.MS · cs.PF

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2R4FYVEJW5A76UFJX2SY7MNCUI}

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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	2026-06-05T01:14:52.015876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4785c5489b741ff50a9bea58fb1a2a22a8e11a5b84a3a6cbdfe8dee277f24b3

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05466 · arxiv_version: 2606.05466v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05466 · pith_short_12: 2R4FYVEJW5A7 · pith_short_16: 2R4FYVEJW5A76UFJ · pith_short_8: 2R4FYVEJ

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/2R4FYVEJW5A76UFJX2SY7MNCUI \
  | 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: d4785c5489b741ff50a9bea58fb1a2a22a8e11a5b84a3a6cbdfe8dee277f24b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d024b2c799e52f020683f3e65602d4845e9c8d7fe16995cfc1ffe11e325f10ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MS",
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-03T21:44:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "beafa697354ddf44ff673d1691b139994855f6b659379ed32a22bb30bc22578d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05466",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}