Pith Number

pith:WGHUVCXV

pith:2026:WGHUVCXVE22ER43TIGESWWSBGO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information for nothing and authority for free

Alexander Winter, Deniz Kattwinkel

arxiv:2608.09409 v1 · 2026-08-10 · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WGHUVCXVE22ER43TIGESWWSBGO}

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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	2026-08-11T02:22:32.967843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b18f4a8af526b448f37341892b5a4133b1c9e3dbfbaa6380620094e9692061fc

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09409 · arxiv_version: 2608.09409v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09409 · pith_short_12: WGHUVCXVE22E · pith_short_16: WGHUVCXVE22ER43T · pith_short_8: WGHUVCXV

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/WGHUVCXVE22ER43TIGESWWSBGO \
  | 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: b18f4a8af526b448f37341892b5a4133b1c9e3dbfbaa6380620094e9692061fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1134b6f316882a011c3ebf662dd093a72d443aa86514bbabb8d8b9f8f83350b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T10:35:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e33696a384cbe8da28341203eeb02a3a400f326a6dbbc9436e44b87141518cde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09409",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}