Pith Number

pith:LMN6ASTG

pith:2013:LMN6ASTGS26GNEOGF2VTWRDB5O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Universe as a Process of Unique Events

Lee Smolin, Marina Cort\^es

arxiv:1307.6167 v3 · 2013-07-23 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LMN6ASTGS26GNEOGF2VTWRDB5O}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:21.484904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b1be04a6696bc6691c62eab3b4461eb887a3d4795aad2605ccde3a1567c374c

Aliases

arxiv: 1307.6167 · arxiv_version: 1307.6167v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1307.6167 · pith_short_12: LMN6ASTGS26G · pith_short_16: LMN6ASTGS26GNEOG · pith_short_8: LMN6ASTG

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/LMN6ASTGS26GNEOGF2VTWRDB5O \
  | 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: 5b1be04a6696bc6691c62eab3b4461eb887a3d4795aad2605ccde3a1567c374c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4deeaf7bfa75b7ac346513fa97a2f4129a9aa712b4a024a5606cf2a897364553",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2013-07-23T17:29:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebc46d0ace9cd774e638b4acdac77ffeb917174f28722147aef67e3e9919aa06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1307.6167",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}