Pith Number

pith:VFLHZWC4

pith:2017:VFLHZWC4PNOBNJX6YNYZ52W2EL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maps of Visual Importance

Marc Alexa, Xi Wang

arxiv:1712.02142 v1 · 2017-12-06 · 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{VFLHZWC4PNOBNJX6YNYZ52W2EL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:39.071349Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9567cd85c7b5c16a6fec3719eeada22db3f5f612d1e54bca1174d4567f7d0a9

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.02142 · arxiv_version: 1712.02142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.02142 · pith_short_12: VFLHZWC4PNOB · pith_short_16: VFLHZWC4PNOBNJX6 · pith_short_8: VFLHZWC4

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/VFLHZWC4PNOBNJX6YNYZ52W2EL \
  | 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: a9567cd85c7b5c16a6fec3719eeada22db3f5f612d1e54bca1174d4567f7d0a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffb71ba44496c61e42c7525679972afaa4fec1efd7b2b475e4c16b0c564d5518",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-06T11:46:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2895f3f1aea1832890fca592f766599a55f9014e174b0ffac25ff08722d804ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.02142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}