Pith Number

pith:MP6KZUIY

pith:2026:MP6KZUIYWQP7EIWFJX33SKUHVV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Early-Stabilizing Counting

Christoph Lenzen, Julian Loss

arxiv:2605.18171 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MP6KZUIYWQP7EIWFJX33SKUHVV}

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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	2026-05-20T00:05:49.210804Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63fcacd118b41ff222c54df7b92a87ad4ef52f784773676edcae94cfc229cc1f

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18171 · arxiv_version: 2605.18171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18171 · pith_short_12: MP6KZUIYWQP7 · pith_short_16: MP6KZUIYWQP7EIWF · pith_short_8: MP6KZUIY

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/MP6KZUIYWQP7EIWFJX33SKUHVV \
  | 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: 63fcacd118b41ff222c54df7b92a87ad4ef52f784773676edcae94cfc229cc1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c09bc07e24a8c88860604e4f2f1f1e113c18f8a8afd0a0f6132351a7f04877cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T10:13:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52a535757174ec5f06310727123b265210faa16bcecbba8292ee6aed242d5d01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}