Pith Number

pith:WZVHYVHF

pith:2015:WZVHYVHFJE2JU2DDPCUCYSWQNT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed House-Hunting in Ant Colonies

Cameron Musco, Mohsen Ghaffari, Nancy Lynch, Tsvetomira Radeva

arxiv:1505.03799 v1 · 2015-05-14 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZVHYVHFJE2JU2DDPCUCYSWQNT}

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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	2026-05-18T02:09:53.003595Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b66a7c54e549349a686378a82c4ad06cfd91e03c5b2476970951499588f6db12

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.03799 · arxiv_version: 1505.03799v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.03799 · pith_short_12: WZVHYVHFJE2J · pith_short_16: WZVHYVHFJE2JU2DD · pith_short_8: WZVHYVHF

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/WZVHYVHFJE2JU2DDPCUCYSWQNT \
  | 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: b66a7c54e549349a686378a82c4ad06cfd91e03c5b2476970951499588f6db12

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "859da33e4443cb23d7d6844c026b81bc7f3413e3076734e9ea6c7f1db395094a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-14T17:09:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b48f3458e7345906510484bd587b3617999cb848a9d1adb0d9f8c7c62d4284f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.03799",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}