Pith Number

pith:3IXRWYSS

pith:2026:3IXRWYSSCM6TUBSU7XLZBAOSHD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vehicle Platooning

Nicholas G. Hall, Zhi-Long Chen

arxiv:2608.09864 v1 · 2026-08-10 · math.OC · cs.CC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3IXRWYSSCM6TUBSU7XLZBAOSHD}

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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	2026-08-11T02:25:17.707331Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da2f1b6252133d3a0654fdd79081d238ebe53b8dead19d0feeb3425985daff76

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09864 · arxiv_version: 2608.09864v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09864 · pith_short_12: 3IXRWYSSCM6T · pith_short_16: 3IXRWYSSCM6TUBSU · pith_short_8: 3IXRWYSS

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/3IXRWYSSCM6TUBSU7XLZBAOSHD \
  | 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: da2f1b6252133d3a0654fdd79081d238ebe53b8dead19d0feeb3425985daff76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1dc152dc415e9cd9c6802159202cb9ab5fef8d2daa5acc773b37d49b7161c89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T17:21:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18cac1aec7053c4e8899dcc5c6af9fe5feb817b1d965d05b4b0effbf0418c17b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09864",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}