Pith Number

pith:65MC4XX5

pith:2016:65MC4XX5NL3CRAITFLNJDFHT4L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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John Ellis

arxiv:1602.05493 v1 · 2016-02-17 · hep-ph · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-th

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{65MC4XX5NL3CRAITFLNJDFHT4L}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:17.318731Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f7582e5efd6af62881132ada9194f3e2d1ecc148ecbe0ba31b832a7d3679d849

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.05493 · arxiv_version: 1602.05493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.05493 · pith_short_12: 65MC4XX5NL3C · pith_short_16: 65MC4XX5NL3CRAIT · pith_short_8: 65MC4XX5

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/65MC4XX5NL3CRAITFLNJDFHT4L \
  | 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: f7582e5efd6af62881132ada9194f3e2d1ecc148ecbe0ba31b832a7d3679d849

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7428fb81a33f9f027160912ce0af59bae2451be68688de91ac1e4ab707cd035d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-17T17:19:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc20008d4d5aaf6e0545de9d8bb15f130b9618cf8d520580f8fd9078ecf51982"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.05493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}