Pith Number

pith:45M3G5DS

pith:2023:45M3G5DSZYIOHNG4X7ZRMIT3TN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Message in a Bottle -- An Update to the Golden Record

Anamaria Berea, Arik Kershenbaum, C. Isabel Nunez Lendo, David Kipping, Graham Lau, Heather Bowden, John Traphagan, Jonathan H. Jiang, Joseph Ginsberg, Karen Lewis, Kristen A. Fahy, Nick Searra, Philip E. Rosen, Prithwis Das, Robert Jew, Stuart F. Taylor, Xiaoming Jiang

arxiv:2306.01765 v3 · 2023-05-27 · cs.CY · physics.ed-ph · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45M3G5DSZYIOHNG4X7ZRMIT3TN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T08:56:12.899525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e759b37472ce10e3b4dcbff316227b9b638e35b7e1c165b30e93221be0fdf2f9

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.01765 · arxiv_version: 2306.01765v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.01765 · pith_short_12: 45M3G5DSZYIO · pith_short_16: 45M3G5DSZYIOHNG4 · pith_short_8: 45M3G5DS

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/45M3G5DSZYIOHNG4X7ZRMIT3TN \
  | 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: e759b37472ce10e3b4dcbff316227b9b638e35b7e1c165b30e93221be0fdf2f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aacc41b1f6e9dea105389111f271987e9979fcf97978623cb84c2f1e66207270",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-27T12:20:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e78da36ed13cdb1d93e2fea3f09159406198b5ac2ea4990e4c9fd87c12c5c681"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.01765",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}