Pith Number

pith:7JTV5Q2A

pith:2017:7JTV5Q2AAN2ULFOAEFO35CRBZE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The structural role of the core literature in history

Giovanni Colavizza

arxiv:1707.02204 v3 · 2017-07-07 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7JTV5Q2AAN2ULFOAEFO35CRBZE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:40.984918Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa675ec34003754595c0215dbe8a21c9010fb097dce4447aa915526d6a2e8e88

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.02204 · arxiv_version: 1707.02204v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.02204 · pith_short_12: 7JTV5Q2AAN2U · pith_short_16: 7JTV5Q2AAN2ULFOA · pith_short_8: 7JTV5Q2A

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/7JTV5Q2AAN2ULFOAEFO35CRBZE \
  | 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: fa675ec34003754595c0215dbe8a21c9010fb097dce4447aa915526d6a2e8e88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b70cce87ffbfc9865289e3352fdd9b1497ba1555d33ea9988ae512484b977573",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-07T14:51:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43cc5b788fac4d6c30a997bc3f2c74a5a504e70f87890a19d6fd9e6687c7e7c4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.02204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}