Pith Number

pith:IUW263R5

pith:2026:IUW263R5BYVCQLUSMPRPBO7EJJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Case for the Everett Multiverse

David Wallace

arxiv:2608.07706 v1 · 2026-08-07 · 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{IUW263R5BYVCQLUSMPRPBO7EJJ}

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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	2026-08-11T00:15:44.897271Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

452daf6e3d0e2a282e9263e2f0bbe44a5e15e43c05aeba9d1ffc62c770fd2257

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07706 · arxiv_version: 2608.07706v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07706 · pith_short_12: IUW263R5BYVC · pith_short_16: IUW263R5BYVCQLUS · pith_short_8: IUW263R5

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/IUW263R5BYVCQLUSMPRPBO7EJJ \
  | 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: 452daf6e3d0e2a282e9263e2f0bbe44a5e15e43c05aeba9d1ffc62c770fd2257

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "330aa359cad9c5918181714d13f044b3b84c16bb6b19fedd4691d33c086e15fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T18:49:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5348dafeb56d7da666526e440965f7dd03bc4e24cdfd804ba1f7941c0940de1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07706",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}