Pith Number

pith:QYEW53B3

pith:2008:QYEW53B3NE6JHRAQUVA4JBHOH6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A static theory of promises

Jan A. Bergstra, Mark Burgess

arxiv:0810.3294 v5 · 2008-10-18 · cs.MA · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QYEW53B3NE6JHRAQUVA4JBHOH6}

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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	2026-05-18T03:00:40.142727Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86096eec3b693c93c410a541c484ee3fb48a20eba9714269659e5a2a2e906b41

Aliases

arxiv: 0810.3294 · arxiv_version: 0810.3294v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0810.3294 · pith_short_12: QYEW53B3NE6J · pith_short_16: QYEW53B3NE6JHRAQ · pith_short_8: QYEW53B3

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/QYEW53B3NE6JHRAQUVA4JBHOH6 \
  | 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: 86096eec3b693c93c410a541c484ee3fb48a20eba9714269659e5a2a2e906b41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a296d120f6aa73f84ad871356332bf0d3a05d4e04613e42ddfe6da7b33bcb6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2008-10-18T07:41:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "686545ae6f9db6caf4afc55e4caf340790320dea40298b112af9cad46f8fb7d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0810.3294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}