Pith Number

pith:IX6BN3XO

pith:2026:IX6BN3XOSYSFHTOJFU5ZI6DTSU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Determination Provenance: From Ambiguity to Algebra

Joseph M. Hellerstein

arxiv:2606.10270 v1 · 2026-06-09 · cs.DB · cs.DC · cs.LO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IX6BN3XOSYSFHTOJFU5ZI6DTSU}

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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	2026-06-10T01:09:03.480081Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45fc16eeee962453cdc92d3b94787395063b0dee607647f6b379a444d641a304

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.10270 · arxiv_version: 2606.10270v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.10270 · pith_short_12: IX6BN3XOSYSF · pith_short_16: IX6BN3XOSYSFHTOJ · pith_short_8: IX6BN3XO

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/IX6BN3XOSYSFHTOJFU5ZI6DTSU \
  | 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: 45fc16eeee962453cdc92d3b94787395063b0dee607647f6b379a444d641a304

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5858de5f6e38c5e5c15be4570bdc2cb6774e9224bf5c02765fee473bc1fbf264",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-09T00:35:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f6b299d01b985e6c8c675c7c79df119eba5d3fdfd1463804cc088ecb0dfa485"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.10270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}