Pith Number

pith:42SSXQEV

pith:2011:42SSXQEVTVDBGOZUUIHF4KSIN4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probably a discovery: Bad mathematics means rough scientific communication

G. D'Agostini

arxiv:1112.3620 v2 · 2011-12-15 · physics.data-an · hep-ph · math.HO · physics.pop-ph · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42SSXQEVTVDBGOZUUIHF4KSIN4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:06:07.350706Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6a52bc0959d46133b34a20e5e2a486f10300493934ebac9dc9ebf34cebe10d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.3620 · arxiv_version: 1112.3620v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.3620 · pith_short_12: 42SSXQEVTVDB · pith_short_16: 42SSXQEVTVDBGOZU · pith_short_8: 42SSXQEV

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/42SSXQEVTVDBGOZUUIHF4KSIN4 \
  | 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: e6a52bc0959d46133b34a20e5e2a486f10300493934ebac9dc9ebf34cebe10d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5a687a4ef5b5d941b6736879c9f34dbe66c4ad7d9400bfe4d20def7afa25c88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "math.HO",
      "physics.pop-ph",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-15T19:35:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90b1270816949414b1b634d8e843a1d4a4f75dcd8c4f753f208a8fd274f91c34"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.3620",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}