Pith Number

pith:WXIBWAI6

pith:2017:WXIBWAI6D5WRQ4NRQDVYKVXU5I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A view of the bulk from the worldline

Henry Maxfield

arxiv:1712.00885 v1 · 2017-12-04 · hep-th · gr-qc

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXIBWAI6D5WRQ4NRQDVYKVXU5I}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:00.099581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5d01b011e1f6d1871b180eb8556f4ea2ec679c08a13643f23d173c544cbab8a

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00885 · arxiv_version: 1712.00885v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00885 · pith_short_12: WXIBWAI6D5WR · pith_short_16: WXIBWAI6D5WRQ4NR · pith_short_8: WXIBWAI6

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/WXIBWAI6D5WRQ4NRQDVYKVXU5I \
  | 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: b5d01b011e1f6d1871b180eb8556f4ea2ec679c08a13643f23d173c544cbab8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23f5ad8d4142972f3f2378ac07107139df6f78b4134fe89a55abf073b17752c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-04T02:56:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6385146e938f7d4528248f7aea982fb7a74eaa405e33aed73f5b794b6ce73712"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00885",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}