Pith Number

pith:55GD5K4D

pith:2026:55GD5K4DAQBEUARKUBBH7E4BTI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pathways to Quantum Science for High-School and Incoming College Students

Charles Pope, Dan-Adrian German, John Phillips, Michele Roberts, Rebekah Randall

arxiv:2608.12437 v1 · 2026-08-12 · physics.ed-ph · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{55GD5K4DAQBEUARKUBBH7E4BTI}

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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	2026-08-14T00:43:09.097711Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef4c3eab8304024a022aa0427f93819a163f85ca6f6dabc4414ffa6267d63de7

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12437 · arxiv_version: 2608.12437v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12437 · pith_short_12: 55GD5K4DAQBE · pith_short_16: 55GD5K4DAQBEUARK · pith_short_8: 55GD5K4D

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/55GD5K4DAQBEUARKUBBH7E4BTI \
  | 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: ef4c3eab8304024a022aa0427f93819a163f85ca6f6dabc4414ffa6267d63de7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a207438610a68addccaccc443a4334e665e0c5e8e181125b154e07d0599c4c78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T14:49:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d469fb97b9ea512254f177e6441ee50d3b29d1c4aa5118ca47546aef5a9a4c24"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12437",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}