Pith Number

pith:6XKIKBZO

pith:2010:6XKIKBZON67RMGLCPFVCAAZYRQ

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Entropic Time

Ariel Caticha

arxiv:1011.0746 v1 · 2010-11-02 · quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · gr-qc

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6XKIKBZON67RMGLCPFVCAAZYRQ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:27.479900Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5d485072e6fbf161962796a2003388c23b1e06319ca501039ae9d5e98c86ea6

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.0746 · arxiv_version: 1011.0746v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.0746 · pith_short_12: 6XKIKBZON67R · pith_short_16: 6XKIKBZON67RMGLC · pith_short_8: 6XKIKBZO

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/6XKIKBZON67RMGLCPFVCAAZYRQ \
  | 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: f5d485072e6fbf161962796a2003388c23b1e06319ca501039ae9d5e98c86ea6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "debe81c2d8d8ab21d9b5c09030f817574f3f7742f3c51704a2a0792bc93d2a55",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-02T20:15:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab311a2f8049a19654d468763b55f36102ed815f2c8ed007a81b8d784fe7a961"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.0746",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}