Pith Number

pith:2WXTU7AH

pith:2016:2WXTU7AH5I3T72EL2SIAYZTWG6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is the Quilted Multiverse Consistent with a Thermodynamic Arrow of Time?

Eliahu Cohen, Tomer Shushi, Yakir Aharonov

arxiv:1608.08798 v5 · 2016-08-31 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2WXTU7AH5I3T72EL2SIAYZTWG6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:10.473486Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5af3a7c07ea373fe88bd4900c667637ad2897ffe0ce6e8618ada1e6e03d062a

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08798 · arxiv_version: 1608.08798v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08798 · pith_short_12: 2WXTU7AH5I3T · pith_short_16: 2WXTU7AH5I3T72EL · pith_short_8: 2WXTU7AH

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/2WXTU7AH5I3T72EL2SIAYZTWG6 \
  | 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: d5af3a7c07ea373fe88bd4900c667637ad2897ffe0ce6e8618ada1e6e03d062a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "918b9d3235f5caeeb691904cbd43fc822fe521d6603222678a16228bd67c1b63",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-31T10:24:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "838ce7b676c5aeaa7186f83da5f80a02dc6e173ba67720e29075f04880d4b5b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08798",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}