Pith Number

pith:A4RCDIJM

pith:2018:A4RCDIJMDTD45VEFH2JEQ3WYCX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Overarching Computation Model (OCM)

Drew Miller, Henok Ghebrechristos

arxiv:1808.03598 v2 · 2018-08-01 · cs.AI · cs.CC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A4RCDIJMDTD45VEFH2JEQ3WYCX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:20.186265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

072221a12c1cc7ced4853e92486ed815e819f0becc4cbec34943378c1d65593b

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.03598 · arxiv_version: 1808.03598v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.03598 · pith_short_12: A4RCDIJMDTD4 · pith_short_16: A4RCDIJMDTD45VEF · pith_short_8: A4RCDIJM

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/A4RCDIJMDTD45VEFH2JEQ3WYCX \
  | 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: 072221a12c1cc7ced4853e92486ed815e819f0becc4cbec34943378c1d65593b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b536a471147e300dbc117443f01226afc5841ae6cbc587e59c6615e790bd6ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-01T14:48:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "378a37522fb6eca14f8eaa587a69abfc18f3b23328426c9d417d764bca2b11ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.03598",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}