Pith Number

pith:QCIDVXO3

pith:2018:QCIDVXO3KBYRXCPONUH2WDFSP4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Universe as an Oscillator

Masooma Ali, Syed Moeez Hassan, Viqar Husain

arxiv:1807.03864 v2 · 2018-07-10 · 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{QCIDVXO3KBYRXCPONUH2WDFSP4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:46.248865Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80903adddb50711b89ee6d0fab0cb27f3becfc9aaa4c64f704f110e8a6b9539b

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.03864 · arxiv_version: 1807.03864v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.03864 · pith_short_12: QCIDVXO3KBYR · pith_short_16: QCIDVXO3KBYRXCPO · pith_short_8: QCIDVXO3

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/QCIDVXO3KBYRXCPONUH2WDFSP4 \
  | 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: 80903adddb50711b89ee6d0fab0cb27f3becfc9aaa4c64f704f110e8a6b9539b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9ca520f5e04f09a789b40e3b8f8c69cbd500627c916ac351e6eeacdab9ee825",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-10T21:08:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1080e0e44c2388c8c9b491ccbfd05bbd8bea2d4204b7ec5af0e0b543ccd9e265"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.03864",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}