Pith Number

pith:3WOH6QRJ

pith:2015:3WOH6QRJV7BM4HGM4EYLCFNJ7P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Conversation with Robert C. Elston

Gang Zheng, Nancy L. Geller, Zhaohai Li

arxiv:1507.08500 v1 · 2015-07-29 · stat.OT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3WOH6QRJV7BM4HGM4EYLCFNJ7P}

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:06.250034Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd9c7f4229afc2ce1ccce130b115a9fbd5144798c2cc67a9116713e9861f0816

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.08500 · arxiv_version: 1507.08500v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.08500 · pith_short_12: 3WOH6QRJV7BM · pith_short_16: 3WOH6QRJV7BM4HGM · pith_short_8: 3WOH6QRJ

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/3WOH6QRJV7BM4HGM4EYLCFNJ7P \
  | 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: dd9c7f4229afc2ce1ccce130b115a9fbd5144798c2cc67a9116713e9861f0816

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "572086294cf8d6459fb068576f5956f4493352a617cb1e4c55c3cd5247edbeae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-29T09:05:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8919229f69fb20b21b1059eb5594386c833b4c12a95bdf63c56001947b15a2f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.08500",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}