Pith Number

pith:GRNX5QXE

pith:2017:GRNX5QXEQXU7VYMYAR77AFHKQE

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Timely Updates over an Erasure Channel

Elie Najm, Emina Soljanin, Jing Zhong, Roy D. Yates

arxiv:1704.04155 v4 · 2017-04-13 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GRNX5QXEQXU7VYMYAR77AFHKQE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:13.762252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

345b7ec2e485e9fae198047ff014ea810ef5628261062ba4e441fe1a81bae2e9

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04155 · arxiv_version: 1704.04155v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04155 · pith_short_12: GRNX5QXEQXU7 · pith_short_16: GRNX5QXEQXU7VYMY · pith_short_8: GRNX5QXE

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/GRNX5QXEQXU7VYMYAR77AFHKQE \
  | 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: 345b7ec2e485e9fae198047ff014ea810ef5628261062ba4e441fe1a81bae2e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89b89748f43f272fd28d9ab598cafa90fad6ae78f45ea37fce628070d588f87c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-13T14:43:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0037d1403dbe9eab80541bb23e947d6103360bcd6ebe9fc57b4d31b9e6f34e83"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}