Pith Number

pith:XIJOKBIW

pith:2014:XIJOKBIWNC7PHOLFKGEGYT5QAC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Journey to the Center of the Fuzzball

Andrea Puhm, Ben Michel, Fang Chen, Joseph Polchinski

arxiv:1408.4798 v1 · 2014-08-20 · 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{XIJOKBIWNC7PHOLFKGEGYT5QAC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:16.550150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba12e5051668bef3b96551886c4fb00096cf47fcbe706d1f1ae0ed9e862cbbf0

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.4798 · arxiv_version: 1408.4798v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.4798 · pith_short_12: XIJOKBIWNC7P · pith_short_16: XIJOKBIWNC7PHOLF · pith_short_8: XIJOKBIW

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/XIJOKBIWNC7PHOLFKGEGYT5QAC \
  | 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: ba12e5051668bef3b96551886c4fb00096cf47fcbe706d1f1ae0ed9e862cbbf0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8422a9eea49d88123a426ad0d354d73db820c6c62c6e0b5cc7eb1099cf75e4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-20T20:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8d9453ec5f0c0936111a41e4966bf450b6e4eec2ebf83255f88028396c3db1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.4798",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}