Pith Number

pith:5CKISH4F

pith:2012:5CKISH4FRDYAOZDJ3BJUFYC4HQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is an imaginary fixed point physical or unphysical?

Fan Zhong

arxiv:1205.1571 v1 · 2012-05-08 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5CKISH4FRDYAOZDJ3BJUFYC4HQ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:56:09.921863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e894891f8588f0076469d85342e05c3c31a9ed85d2e7c526544ddaf6b413e969

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.1571 · arxiv_version: 1205.1571v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.1571 · pith_short_12: 5CKISH4FRDYA · pith_short_16: 5CKISH4FRDYAOZDJ · pith_short_8: 5CKISH4F

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/5CKISH4FRDYAOZDJ3BJUFYC4HQ \
  | 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: e894891f8588f0076469d85342e05c3c31a9ed85d2e7c526544ddaf6b413e969

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50d816170edc6802807ae84dbd79d5ab0267aa2e532123b29cb9c1d6dfa2c50b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-08T01:34:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2910640dccecb31c90333e696a6472cdad0ed70f7e85adf34f442dd1fbd97674"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.1571",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}