Pith Number

pith:6PCH23NW

pith:2015:6PCH23NWVVT4HVZKFCRVHHRMLR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Of Matters Condensed

Marc Warner, Michael Shulman

arxiv:1502.03103 v1 · 2015-02-10 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6PCH23NWVVT4HVZKFCRVHHRMLR}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:20.553491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3c47d6db6ad67c3d72a28a3539e2c5c4df2589edce2e2c6d90f27cb6b2f31a6

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.03103 · arxiv_version: 1502.03103v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.03103 · pith_short_12: 6PCH23NWVVT4 · pith_short_16: 6PCH23NWVVT4HVZK · pith_short_8: 6PCH23NW

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/6PCH23NWVVT4HVZKFCRVHHRMLR \
  | 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: f3c47d6db6ad67c3d72a28a3539e2c5c4df2589edce2e2c6d90f27cb6b2f31a6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "592713b455243e0f462c2853f258cf2de244c753be2d88061b0d91b9a19949c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-10T21:00:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "161a332c2494901a12613a70bff8903102e0dc837e0d9020e610fed225702dcf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.03103",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}