Pith Number record
pith:O2SLM7I4
pith:2016:O2SLM7I4GUMUHIKCELJOBTM3IV
Protocol
content-addressed
Pith receipt
schema 1.0
- Author
- not author-attested
- Timestamp
- not externally anchored
- Storage
- storage not verified
- References
- references not resolved
The second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources from the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis
Record completeness checklist
1
Anchor canonical hash to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps
open
Stamps the canonical SHA-256 (
76a4b67d1c351943a14222d2...) across
three calendars. Confirms instantly. Calendars upgrade to a Bitcoin-block proof in a few hours.
2
Mirror to Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
open
Submits the paper URL to the Internet Archive and records the resulting Wayback capture
URL plus timestamp. Pith does not host the paper.
4
Sign a citation pointing at this record
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Records a signed citation. Pick a relationship (supports, refutes, extends, uses_method,
depends_on, replaces, compares, cites). Pith signs the assertion server-side.
5
Submit replication, falsification, or formal bridge
open
Public record of a replication attempt, formal bridge (Lean / Coq), or falsification.
Held for moderation. Not peer review; a typed annotation.
Claims
Receipt
| First computed | 2026-05-18T00:35:35.168660Z |
|---|---|
| Builder | pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1 |
| Signature |
Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05, fingerprint 8d4b5ee74e4693bc…) · public key
|
| Signature value | Jzr7zH/18fjF25EEvQ/4NsVw3Yy/adNX6gWFyqvEybxu2d41wZrhfExCLn5SPmKPZIoVldYS173pQx1A1cWhBQ== |
| Schema | pith-number/v1.0 |
Canonical hash
76a4b67d1c351943a14222d2e0cd9b455f278877c8fc4870cfb3af0690723380
Aliases
| Kind | Value |
|---|---|
| arxiv | 1612.03165 |
| arxiv_version | 1612.03165v3 |
| doi | 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03165 |
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
Three shell lines recompute the canonical hash. If the hash you compute matches the one shown above, the record is intact end-to-end.
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O2SLM7I4GUMUHIKCELJOBTM3IV \
| 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: 76a4b67d1c351943a14222d2e0cd9b455f278877c8fc4870cfb3af0690723380
Verify the Pith Ed25519 signature against the published public key:
curl -s https://pith.science/pith-signing-key.json | jq -r .public_key_b64 \
| base64 -d > /tmp/pith_pub.bin
python3 -c "
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey
import base64
pub = Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(open('/tmp/pith_pub.bin','rb').read())
sig = base64.b64decode('Jzr7zH/18fjF25EEvQ/4NsVw3Yy/adNX6gWFyqvEybxu2d41wZrhfExCLn5SPmKPZIoVldYS173pQx1A1cWhBQ==')
digest = bytes.fromhex('76a4b67d1c351943a14222d2e0cd9b455f278877c8fc4870cfb3af0690723380')
pub.verify(sig, digest)
print('signature OK')"
Show canonical record JSON
{
"metadata": {
"abstract_canon_sha256": "acd72184586703bbf130959b17181151a3c5b9c9c8858fb61b3f5c433b0588ba",
"cross_cats_sorted": [],
"license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
"primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
"submitted_at": "2016-12-09T20:59:58Z",
"title_canon_sha256": "192a18ba211a5adbd5bbcd7c1b22aadec8a41a8eabd855fce488b994d2e5bc4e"
},
"schema_version": "1.0",
"source": {
"id": "1612.03165",
"kind": "arxiv",
"version": 3
}
}