Pith Number

pith:RQBYNT2E

pith:2025:RQBYNT2EIHMMQSBCNYFN3VTJMS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Geometrizing the Anomaly

Christopher B. Verhaaren, John Terning, Joshua Newey

arxiv:2504.16998 v2 · 2025-04-23 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQBYNT2EIHMMQSBCNYFN3VTJMS}

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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	2026-07-05T11:48:25.380580Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c0386cf4441d8c848226e0addd66964b4de48d9a67adb26908db6ae1cff7c6c

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.16998 · arxiv_version: 2504.16998v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.16998 · pith_short_12: RQBYNT2EIHMM · pith_short_16: RQBYNT2EIHMMQSBC · pith_short_8: RQBYNT2E

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/RQBYNT2EIHMMQSBCNYFN3VTJMS \
  | 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: 8c0386cf4441d8c848226e0addd66964b4de48d9a67adb26908db6ae1cff7c6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d5e63d77839605b9c4cafccda5b952c29eb27b93654eb015633710734ff33ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-23T18:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f4fc9e357d35c0becb6d368bf6c4f39109c276a11d3da6175b37e21dbb5e89e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.16998",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}