Pith Number

pith:XYOS6LYT

pith:2016:XYOS6LYTDKHH4ES5DEMZDGBSOU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asking photons where they have been in plain language

D. Sokolovski

arxiv:1607.03732 v4 · 2016-07-13 · quant-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XYOS6LYTDKHH4ES5DEMZDGBSOU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:38.076939Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be1d2f2f131a8e7e125d19199198327534623d16d177b8524cd4a3e17f6ea646

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.03732 · arxiv_version: 1607.03732v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.03732 · pith_short_12: XYOS6LYTDKHH · pith_short_16: XYOS6LYTDKHH4ES5 · pith_short_8: XYOS6LYT

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/XYOS6LYTDKHH4ES5DEMZDGBSOU \
  | 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: be1d2f2f131a8e7e125d19199198327534623d16d177b8524cd4a3e17f6ea646

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ffb0c142ff1bb0e779c8ad2fde03e0d75c96fd8afbd90c107aa789d6c7d4ae6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-13T13:51:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43352683f442e7a6287d9bd3d7528d0caec1a5bdbeba21b80d0c49be9e2f622e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.03732",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}