Pith Number

pith:CCNXEBC6

pith:2026:CCNXEBC6KNMRPJOCJPJPI5WBKG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Enforcing Trust Accountability with Backward Propagation

George Konstantinidis, Wenbo Wu

arxiv:2606.08851 v1 · 2026-06-07 · cs.SI · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CCNXEBC6KNMRPJOCJPJPI5WBKG}

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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	2026-06-09T02:07:42.882278Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

109b72045e535917a5c24bd2f476c15183e145997d5817b50f090d5974186868

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08851 · arxiv_version: 2606.08851v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08851 · pith_short_12: CCNXEBC6KNMR · pith_short_16: CCNXEBC6KNMRPJOC · pith_short_8: CCNXEBC6

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/CCNXEBC6KNMRPJOCJPJPI5WBKG \
  | 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: 109b72045e535917a5c24bd2f476c15183e145997d5817b50f090d5974186868

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec2b0cf5a636633668e1443027ac258f65b0d256d148f5dd7ac60d56d32df729",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-07T21:43:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa9c53e69f1da98d9fb51fc5dd2f9a252c256d1606ee38a7bb24fe711145f8ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08851",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}