Pith Number

pith:ICQT63VM

pith:2014:ICQT63VMYF74IZXMCK7EGLBHRL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A new concept for safeguarding and labeling of long-term stored waste and its place in the scope of existing tagging techniques

Dina Chernikova, K{\aa}re Axell

arxiv:1402.2173 v1 · 2014-02-10 · physics.ins-det · nucl-ex

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ICQT63VMYF74IZXMCK7EGLBHRL}

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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	2026-05-18T02:59:31.953294Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40a13f6eacc17fc466ec12be432c278af84720ae4e87077bf06d15145122a515

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.2173 · arxiv_version: 1402.2173v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.2173 · pith_short_12: ICQT63VMYF74 · pith_short_16: ICQT63VMYF74IZXM · pith_short_8: ICQT63VM

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/ICQT63VMYF74IZXMCK7EGLBHRL \
  | 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: 40a13f6eacc17fc466ec12be432c278af84720ae4e87077bf06d15145122a515

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73f173eb86a960edd6ec1ff623c9fbc8ed74b7fe0e950164dbcb7a3dad32a454",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-10T15:00:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b19c9ceffb3af8bbb1f48784abc7ac5c7d490c14ef574ca1eb0f255b953d7699"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.2173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}