Pith Number

pith:U7HXK6EQ

pith:2015:U7HXK6EQWWDPSADJ66L6A6FM4K

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How Creative Ideas Take Shape

Liane Gabora

arxiv:1501.04406 v1 · 2015-01-19 · q-bio.NC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U7HXK6EQWWDPSADJ66L6A6FM4K}

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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	2026-05-18T02:29:09.098871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7cf757890b586f90069f797e078ace2bbefd92e0425d8d8867b5b6376f37f0c

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.04406 · arxiv_version: 1501.04406v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.04406 · pith_short_12: U7HXK6EQWWDP · pith_short_16: U7HXK6EQWWDPSADJ · pith_short_8: U7HXK6EQ

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/U7HXK6EQWWDPSADJ66L6A6FM4K \
  | 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: a7cf757890b586f90069f797e078ace2bbefd92e0425d8d8867b5b6376f37f0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5a48189ce521d92df97e908a62622a7766af0f28e8822214a30d34aa974700b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-19T06:43:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13eb7510f05a8b331a80d21f80af4af7ede8b384394c8a151968b5ca11eb5e4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.04406",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}