Pith Number

pith:3GHNYGXY

pith:2006:3GHNYGXYGEORZJA77NCVUDPPWD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is Our Universe Likely to Decay within 20 Billion Years?

Don N. Page

arxiv:hep-th/0610079 v2 · 2006-10-09 · hep-th · astro-ph · 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{3GHNYGXYGEORZJA77NCVUDPPWD}

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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	2026-07-04T15:38:27.645774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d98edc1af8311d1ca41ffb455a0defb0c7bc8c198b2b80dc018cdcfa75c1b436

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0610079 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0610079v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0610079 · pith_short_12: 3GHNYGXYGEOR · pith_short_16: 3GHNYGXYGEORZJA7 · pith_short_8: 3GHNYGXY

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/3GHNYGXYGEORZJA77NCVUDPPWD \
  | 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: d98edc1af8311d1ca41ffb455a0defb0c7bc8c198b2b80dc018cdcfa75c1b436

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ceedfe4a64f8368610ac1961bf06232993f78e3fb2b5e7fbfcb6dce69de13f97",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2006-10-09T19:19:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7b9261ea9b0867c7ec6f04b98615cb19d5c347c9d4a33988450299abfca0f3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0610079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}