Pith Number

pith:6FKCQ4KY

pith:2015:6FKCQ4KYHTYHW4LX3B4AALQJQC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Objective information in the empiricist view of von Weizs\"acker

Afshin Shafiee, Iman Khatam

arxiv:1510.03725 v1 · 2015-10-13 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6FKCQ4KYHTYHW4LX3B4AALQJQC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:30:16.351879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1542871583cf07b7177d878002e098082139e0f5d08d27b11af5b334194df97

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.03725 · arxiv_version: 1510.03725v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.03725 · pith_short_12: 6FKCQ4KYHTYH · pith_short_16: 6FKCQ4KYHTYHW4LX · pith_short_8: 6FKCQ4KY

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/6FKCQ4KYHTYHW4LX3B4AALQJQC \
  | 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: f1542871583cf07b7177d878002e098082139e0f5d08d27b11af5b334194df97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6908616907c2cbeced47ca9be44f6eea625cb10212d7beee4b8ea2b8999a3f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-13T15:04:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ce28011e228ff3d25b0c5cb987f7d49a9d52f8ffae15226e294c127a0bf785b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.03725",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}