Pith Number

pith:5VIETLTD

pith:2014:5VIETLTDJSM6YPIOVL3IGIS7OC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A subquantum arrow of time

Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

arxiv:1409.3131 v1 · 2014-09-10 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VIETLTDJSM6YPIOVL3IGIS7OC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:03.767849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed5049ae634c99ec3d0eaaf683225f70a33672558ff7e19f027eb1c63339a93a

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.3131 · arxiv_version: 1409.3131v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.3131 · pith_short_12: 5VIETLTDJSM6 · pith_short_16: 5VIETLTDJSM6YPIO · pith_short_8: 5VIETLTD

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/5VIETLTDJSM6YPIOVL3IGIS7OC \
  | 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: ed5049ae634c99ec3d0eaaf683225f70a33672558ff7e19f027eb1c63339a93a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e778071af0347d8e5e3179cf41974936c715397fabba2a42f40d73590c291a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-10T16:01:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84a3b2b9b205c6cb60fbd63c207146bdd59aabe37302540b705b03f04687b7d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.3131",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}