Pith Number

pith:SVZC7AK4

pith:2021:SVZC7AK4BQHSDIRED4ULUAJ27R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

FLiMS: a Fast Lightweight 2-way Merger for Sorting

Chris Brooks, Philippos Papaphilippou, Wayne Luk

arxiv:2112.05607 v4 · 2021-12-10 · cs.AR · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SVZC7AK4BQHSDIRED4ULUAJ27R}

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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	2026-07-05T04:02:21.428436Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95722f815c0c0f21a2241f28ba013afc4c213f5c73746fde42aea6fcf0bd273a

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.05607 · arxiv_version: 2112.05607v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.05607 · pith_short_12: SVZC7AK4BQHS · pith_short_16: SVZC7AK4BQHSDIRE · pith_short_8: SVZC7AK4

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/SVZC7AK4BQHSDIRED4ULUAJ27R \
  | 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: 95722f815c0c0f21a2241f28ba013afc4c213f5c73746fde42aea6fcf0bd273a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74fac4af8b005d98c3e9a94c8cd8a5e3f39354403adc31db747f568527db0c0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AR",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-10T15:40:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4fe88b28fb81a486075a19474a4ba6834ea2308f9fded64db53ff85a7d399d7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.05607",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}