Pith Number

pith:E4EEGABL

pith:2011:E4EEGABL27XMVZEDJDKRRP2HQF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Confluent Persistence Revisited

John Iacono, Sebastien Collette, Stefan Langerman

arxiv:1104.3045 v1 · 2011-04-15 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E4EEGABL27XMVZEDJDKRRP2HQF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:06.688064Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

270843002bd7eecae48348d518bf47816288a56e4bb04a5a8e95b5f2e50e16a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.3045 · arxiv_version: 1104.3045v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.3045 · pith_short_12: E4EEGABL27XM · pith_short_16: E4EEGABL27XMVZED · pith_short_8: E4EEGABL

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/E4EEGABL27XMVZEDJDKRRP2HQF \
  | 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: 270843002bd7eecae48348d518bf47816288a56e4bb04a5a8e95b5f2e50e16a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "256d09efd663c6842317b97f997670b0a651dae034f8e1dd5c4304f528d62d8d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-15T13:13:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e40b7171a1cb0254e99f3f7cfd7c0c78c1bc39ab162a472731275fa146a58eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.3045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}