Pith Number

pith:SPHSD7JZ

pith:2013:SPHSD7JZQF5HGCZNSHPZJVGLL3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perfectly load-balanced, optimal, stable, parallel merge

Christian Siebert, Jesper Larsson Tr\"aff

arxiv:1303.4312 v2 · 2013-03-18 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SPHSD7JZQF5HGCZNSHPZJVGLL3}

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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	2026-05-18T03:07:23.569565Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93cf21fd39817a730b2d91df94d4cb5efe698d8a10599e35b2b9112c2ce7c4b0

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.4312 · arxiv_version: 1303.4312v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.4312 · pith_short_12: SPHSD7JZQF5H · pith_short_16: SPHSD7JZQF5HGCZN · pith_short_8: SPHSD7JZ

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/SPHSD7JZQF5HGCZNSHPZJVGLL3 \
  | 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: 93cf21fd39817a730b2d91df94d4cb5efe698d8a10599e35b2b9112c2ce7c4b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fd7d1b37b606b423b081e87d05a860c3810f7e6a79dded4a5aac4c04f127740",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-18T16:40:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f156bfadb8eec6805d7420c0df66b846c07b9d6887bec2ed520ca30a38f2886"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.4312",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}