Pith Number

pith:ZPXPQP7R

pith:2018:ZPXPQP7RTHTVQDP4YSGHE5KNOB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Communication Protocol for Man-Machine Networks

Gita Sukthankar, Neda Hajiakhoond

arxiv:1808.07975 v1 · 2018-08-24 · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZPXPQP7RTHTVQDP4YSGHE5KNOB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:22.882968Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cbeef83ff199e7580dfcc48c72754d704d0fc62485ead5bce6087e71f40f5bf6

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.07975 · arxiv_version: 1808.07975v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.07975 · pith_short_12: ZPXPQP7RTHTV · pith_short_16: ZPXPQP7RTHTVQDP4 · pith_short_8: ZPXPQP7R

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/ZPXPQP7RTHTVQDP4YSGHE5KNOB \
  | 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: cbeef83ff199e7580dfcc48c72754d704d0fc62485ead5bce6087e71f40f5bf6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "007e114bcc00f02dc5e83bef74c40a60d85e886bb9a2169770f6c5c7b16b7f30",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-24T00:53:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99d71e3edc1e0e3965471206fe77b214b96a292885dfa1ddb49c98b3a2023cfe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.07975",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}