Pith Number

pith:WLFSZBXS

pith:2005:WLFSZBXSOV6MFN4JD3MMDNVTMY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Zeta-Dimension

David Doty, Elvira Mayordomo, Jack H. Lutz, Philippe Moser, Xiaoyang Gu

arxiv:cs/0503052 v1 · 2005-03-22 · cs.CC · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WLFSZBXSOV6MFN4JD3MMDNVTMY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:49.158656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2cb2c86f2757cc2b7891ed8c1b6b3663011f77265dc495f0fbebc2915d991ae

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0503052 · arxiv_version: cs/0503052v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0503052 · pith_short_12: WLFSZBXSOV6M · pith_short_16: WLFSZBXSOV6MFN4J · pith_short_8: WLFSZBXS

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/WLFSZBXSOV6MFN4JD3MMDNVTMY \
  | 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: b2cb2c86f2757cc2b7891ed8c1b6b3663011f77265dc495f0fbebc2915d991ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f57763419ad0ffa997b4691e2119753ccb3e6eed2d9aa3d35299a66cf7f84f72",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2005-03-22T05:58:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea615d67a00ad344bf6bc2804185710429add6051d61d16877f7dcba99491b5e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0503052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}