Pith Number

pith:42JUV37E

pith:2010:42JUV37E3E5KYUOWWJX6MW3VA3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Network analysis of a corpus of undeciphered Indus civilization inscriptions indicates syntactic organization

Bryan Kenneth Wells, Md Izhar Ashraf, Raj Kumar Pan, Sitabhra Sinha

arxiv:1005.4997 v1 · 2010-05-27 · cs.CL · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42JUV37E3E5KYUOWWJX6MW3VA3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:26:54.723098Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6934aefe4d93aac51d6b26fe65b7506cbc2885323611c8c57d403023011a573

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.4997 · arxiv_version: 1005.4997v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.4997 · pith_short_12: 42JUV37E3E5K · pith_short_16: 42JUV37E3E5KYUOW · pith_short_8: 42JUV37E

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/42JUV37E3E5KYUOWWJX6MW3VA3 \
  | 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: e6934aefe4d93aac51d6b26fe65b7506cbc2885323611c8c57d403023011a573

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bec809285e2d24af1d911d2075b678dd60a2ef5efb75d508073635a03a409ddd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-27T07:24:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0856759bb11c89d3b6db8756ecd693c80857da4afc358ff0c87d39f7369a2de1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.4997",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}