Pith Number

pith:Y4HJ3RVE

pith:2017:Y4HJ3RVECVRGAZNNXW3Q7FCPZV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Walks on chains

Alexander Gil, Anton Petrunin

arxiv:1701.00827 v4 · 2017-01-03 · math.HO · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y4HJ3RVECVRGAZNNXW3Q7FCPZV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:41.595427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c70e9dc6a415626065adbdb70f944fcd68d2e9286c2506358cfaded851eb44df

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.00827 · arxiv_version: 1701.00827v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.00827 · pith_short_12: Y4HJ3RVECVRG · pith_short_16: Y4HJ3RVECVRGAZNN · pith_short_8: Y4HJ3RVE

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/Y4HJ3RVECVRGAZNNXW3Q7FCPZV \
  | 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: c70e9dc6a415626065adbdb70f944fcd68d2e9286c2506358cfaded851eb44df

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76ef7d3bce6f1e9ecd433210c05d0d657f8cc31a241ea1e0d158e3f7710d99e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-03T20:46:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a714800e0e9047bb6664594088691ffec9165bf2058e2f099077c79b0f113fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.00827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}