Pith Number

pith:VLFNDP6P

pith:2013:VLFNDP6PAWYHNCDLOQOH3OKSMS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Extending the logical update view with transaction support

Jan Wielemaker

arxiv:1301.7669 v1 · 2013-01-31 · cs.PL · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLFNDP6PAWYHNCDLOQOH3OKSMS}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:34:48.985632Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aacad1bfcf05b076886b741c7db952649dac8a425e265089f4225ac419cb85bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.7669 · arxiv_version: 1301.7669v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.7669 · pith_short_12: VLFNDP6PAWYH · pith_short_16: VLFNDP6PAWYHNCDL · pith_short_8: VLFNDP6P

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/VLFNDP6PAWYHNCDLOQOH3OKSMS \
  | 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: aacad1bfcf05b076886b741c7db952649dac8a425e265089f4225ac419cb85bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3856eb5cf2021686fe01da009e1731a380a0b1d039520db9a1a3d3b0c35778bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-31T16:23:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94916a5e98e57f008c90e1cb9bd88f348f46d42afd64aa8decb640acacafa5b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.7669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}