Pith Number

pith:54BFGS3I

pith:2025:54BFGS3IZPTIMD55DGRSAYNAOY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

AI Reasoning Models for Problem Solving in Physics

Amir Bralin, N. Sanjay Rebello

arxiv:2508.20941 v1 · 2025-08-28 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{54BFGS3IZPTIMD55DGRSAYNAOY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T12:01:13.799594Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef02534b68cbe6860fbd19a32061a07620033026f67f166113fece2a1e79065e

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.20941 · arxiv_version: 2508.20941v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.20941 · pith_short_12: 54BFGS3IZPTI · pith_short_16: 54BFGS3IZPTIMD55 · pith_short_8: 54BFGS3I

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/54BFGS3IZPTIMD55DGRSAYNAOY \
  | 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: ef02534b68cbe6860fbd19a32061a07620033026f67f166113fece2a1e79065e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a407c231f9322581ecf36063094b350516afd433d14bd2540b07262633ac0f02",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-28T16:02:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd31897d0536eb5e887084dd546f20ae3bb1de9774c6bb32f502867cccc6c13d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.20941",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}