Pith Number

pith:QE5PUSO2

pith:2026:QE5PUSO2D2FL4J4CMJYXJED2TS

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Biswa Sengupta

arxiv:2607.00871 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QE5PUSO2D2FL4J4CMJYXJED2TS}

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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	2026-07-02T01:18:21.887999Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

813afa49da1e8abe2782627174907a9c8411b04c0af3183886778942492e8531

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00871 · arxiv_version: 2607.00871v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00871 · pith_short_12: QE5PUSO2D2FL · pith_short_16: QE5PUSO2D2FL4J4C · pith_short_8: QE5PUSO2

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/QE5PUSO2D2FL4J4CMJYXJED2TS \
  | 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: 813afa49da1e8abe2782627174907a9c8411b04c0af3183886778942492e8531

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "222fe87803d74bcbd50c4d4d5c2253a40b62d2ed2b6a1cb11db6391f098faa51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T12:34:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f45e994d3fdfafe6fa335cf80b0277780c8be9f7ad2540f66f76f9d524e85e32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}