Pith Number

pith:JT76NPPE

pith:2012:JT76NPPENOPMR4WEVVGBRGH5YR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simplified, stable parallel merging

Jesper Larsson Tr\"aff

arxiv:1202.6575 v3 · 2012-02-29 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JT76NPPENOPMR4WEVVGBRGH5YR}

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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	2026-05-18T03:52:14.742734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4cffe6bde46b9ec8f2c4ad4c1898fdc44b92731beae795f6ed5e57cfa3f9f3f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.6575 · arxiv_version: 1202.6575v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.6575 · pith_short_12: JT76NPPENOPM · pith_short_16: JT76NPPENOPMR4WE · pith_short_8: JT76NPPE

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/JT76NPPENOPMR4WEVVGBRGH5YR \
  | 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: 4cffe6bde46b9ec8f2c4ad4c1898fdc44b92731beae795f6ed5e57cfa3f9f3f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c75a7bf4ed1abcd4261ef3b8793e04ee34a2e93f843a702ecabfd2e56a0b465a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-29T15:32:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8be2300bd7ac276b64ed4eb0a36cd7f5c4b47cf7fb88b6ce9383c31b4bc40d00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.6575",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}