Pith Number

pith:PTM2EB7K

pith:2008:PTM2EB7KQLKNM7QKTX5G3USZ5P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Aether Compactification

Heywood Tam, Sean M. Carroll

arxiv:0802.0521 v3 · 2008-02-05 · hep-ph · 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{PTM2EB7KQLKNM7QKTX5G3USZ5P}

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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	2026-07-04T15:30:58.828490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7cd9a207ea82d4d67e0a9dfa6dd259ebe0da2a30323985b7df142e5d409e3047

Aliases

arxiv: 0802.0521 · arxiv_version: 0802.0521v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.0521 · pith_short_12: PTM2EB7KQLKN · pith_short_16: PTM2EB7KQLKNM7QK · pith_short_8: PTM2EB7K

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/PTM2EB7KQLKNM7QKTX5G3USZ5P \
  | 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: 7cd9a207ea82d4d67e0a9dfa6dd259ebe0da2a30323985b7df142e5d409e3047

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1342b677cf012bef3b867f3a3a8dfae5a87ed6644b5b3bc94fd826c6bb14cfa4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-02-05T00:04:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9faf02f35d9d44a9036c3b2135d3976bf2f4645519ce586848d16f436bb088c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0802.0521",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}