Pith Number

pith:2W6ZO2AT

pith:2003:2W6ZO2ATE7RRFFKYDBB3QUQMZN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A new paradigm for the universe

Colin Rourke

arxiv:astro-ph/0311033 v5 · 2003-11-03 · astro-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{2W6ZO2ATE7RRFFKYDBB3QUQMZN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:43.797163Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5bd97681327e31295581843b8520ccb7ecc7dec626cc0e5af27e97104a2aea7

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0311033 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0311033v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0311033 · pith_short_12: 2W6ZO2ATE7RR · pith_short_16: 2W6ZO2ATE7RRFFKY · pith_short_8: 2W6ZO2AT

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/2W6ZO2ATE7RRFFKYDBB3QUQMZN \
  | 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: d5bd97681327e31295581843b8520ccb7ecc7dec626cc0e5af27e97104a2aea7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c20349f74ccd20f5eace7bb108a1ba648dfa38fbec7ab37de4e056b5c7d6e64a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-11-03T14:34:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8e47f1b23093f14e94259d369e608db1fbcc3560bfcb07832bbf3aa04574dd4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0311033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}