Pith Number

pith:5XEREQ57

pith:2018:5XEREQ57NJP5ZMO4U6G6WTVA74

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Using disciplinary perspectives to refine conceptions of the "real world"

Abhilash Nair, Paul Irving, Vashti Sawtelle

arxiv:1808.10429 v1 · 2018-08-30 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XEREQ57NJP5ZMO4U6G6WTVA74}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:48.861669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edc91243bf6a5fdcb1dca78deb4ea0ff06e992253c99b8bed556d1efa36be029

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.10429 · arxiv_version: 1808.10429v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.10429 · pith_short_12: 5XEREQ57NJP5 · pith_short_16: 5XEREQ57NJP5ZMO4 · pith_short_8: 5XEREQ57

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/5XEREQ57NJP5ZMO4U6G6WTVA74 \
  | 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: edc91243bf6a5fdcb1dca78deb4ea0ff06e992253c99b8bed556d1efa36be029

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd6c3c3cbcee80619736d09dc86d15b5ccce5c268278aa319a42be2c3c35e639",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-30T17:48:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d2abb8fcea99eb401668c95aea6cc6b5a8056293ac98e016b71e9ffadd13adf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.10429",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}