Pith Number

pith:G6GNFW42

pith:2015:G6GNFW42WA5W5SM4FG4AQNRZPG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Who Contributes to the Knowledge Sharing Economy?

Arthi Ramachandran, Augustin Chaintreau

arxiv:1508.06911 v1 · 2015-08-27 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G6GNFW42WA5W5SM4FG4AQNRZPG}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:34:40.571636Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

378cd2db9ab03b6ec99c29b8083639799542a082ea6874adb2bfd59a488805d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.06911 · arxiv_version: 1508.06911v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.06911 · pith_short_12: G6GNFW42WA5W · pith_short_16: G6GNFW42WA5W5SM4 · pith_short_8: G6GNFW42

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/G6GNFW42WA5W5SM4FG4AQNRZPG \
  | 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: 378cd2db9ab03b6ec99c29b8083639799542a082ea6874adb2bfd59a488805d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "270ab4775d184b4e017341349842738675fed3f81cd1d75a5d89e66b5804bd6c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-27T16:05:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70441d9d5dcd5fdc264e50a418b9cbdd736e75c0a6e0c0daabc47492da206f73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.06911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}