Pith Number

pith:6UGQBMKU

pith:2017:6UGQBMKUF4O4NF4Z6GMTUHFDE2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Identity Method Revisited

Claude A. Pruneau

arxiv:1706.01333 v1 · 2017-06-01 · physics.data-an · nucl-th

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6UGQBMKUF4O4NF4Z6GMTUHFDE2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:03.982437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f50d00b1542f1dc69799f1993a1ca326be95db11153ab86384438f2c6aa54747

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01333 · arxiv_version: 1706.01333v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01333 · pith_short_12: 6UGQBMKUF4O4 · pith_short_16: 6UGQBMKUF4O4NF4Z · pith_short_8: 6UGQBMKU

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/6UGQBMKUF4O4NF4Z6GMTUHFDE2 \
  | 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: f50d00b1542f1dc69799f1993a1ca326be95db11153ab86384438f2c6aa54747

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc17bdb60ea959122a07b9d7fde3d34c5fb930f1426ea88af310f8ce55e1810e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-01T11:28:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dfe3502ba020e5f1d6734e9fc8828aacd4b89b05c1ce2e78afbbc01570501c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01333",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}