Pith Number

pith:3C6DLWHZ

pith:2018:3C6DLWHZ3M6J2W7WDAFGMO5T7T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The art of the state

Christopher J. Fewster

arxiv:1803.06836 v1 · 2018-03-19 · 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{3C6DLWHZ3M6J2W7WDAFGMO5T7T}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:08.226015Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8bc35d8f9db3c9d5bf6180a663bb3fcec2527c1a61da56337c0eeb5778ed06f

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.06836 · arxiv_version: 1803.06836v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.06836 · pith_short_12: 3C6DLWHZ3M6J · pith_short_16: 3C6DLWHZ3M6J2W7W · pith_short_8: 3C6DLWHZ

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/3C6DLWHZ3M6J2W7WDAFGMO5T7T \
  | 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: d8bc35d8f9db3c9d5bf6180a663bb3fcec2527c1a61da56337c0eeb5778ed06f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "10acb3993a039e5231e31c5a879a96d1efdf6d18082d4d318a2080f2e5ffa5d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-19T09:13:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f52aafdd545c768e1d7ef7a9b95c4c0b72ab947cdbcb9ed217308b6b7217368b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.06836",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}