Pith Number

pith:6WZ6M5MB

pith:2016:6WZ6M5MBCCTGRLWVJJDBES5POH

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Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Dmitry Budker

arxiv:1607.02942 v1 · 2016-06-21 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6WZ6M5MBCCTGRLWVJJDBES5POH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:14.341617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5b3e6758110a668aed54a46124baf71de51d1ee16b831d6992bd6fb598a4b46

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.02942 · arxiv_version: 1607.02942v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.02942 · pith_short_12: 6WZ6M5MBCCTG · pith_short_16: 6WZ6M5MBCCTGRLWV · pith_short_8: 6WZ6M5MB

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/6WZ6M5MBCCTGRLWVJJDBES5POH \
  | 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: f5b3e6758110a668aed54a46124baf71de51d1ee16b831d6992bd6fb598a4b46

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "abf916d5f9d9267c8565db81231427bb1f3f3883978bc42e9f245d32e5e23efb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-21T23:51:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab70fad970c7434fec66964268190790cdb36f8d8bd21eb10247a8b4f2d3b09b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.02942",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}