Pith Number

pith:YGQNYV4P

pith:2007:YGQNYV4PWRT6HG2GU6RQT6YRQG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-Radiography of Cargo Containers

C. Morris, G. S. Blanpied, J. I. Katz, K. N. Borozdin

arxiv:0708.2546 v1 · 2007-08-19 · physics.soc-ph · physics.ins-det

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGQNYV4PWRT6HG2GU6RQT6YRQG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:22.378663Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1a0dc578fb467e39b46a7a309fb1181888a8b83dee280e708fc26fa481ad4d8

Aliases

arxiv: 0708.2546 · arxiv_version: 0708.2546v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.2546 · pith_short_12: YGQNYV4PWRT6 · pith_short_16: YGQNYV4PWRT6HG2G · pith_short_8: YGQNYV4P

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/YGQNYV4PWRT6HG2GU6RQT6YRQG \
  | 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: c1a0dc578fb467e39b46a7a309fb1181888a8b83dee280e708fc26fa481ad4d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5bc91f4b4e75b879a56d94f0eda48631f441f3353f7b060641e7f3d253bc03b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ins-det"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-08-19T14:03:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bc5423c0f99b354168602390c37cd43597c561a83f323c890d0aca5a6723eef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0708.2546",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}