Pith Number

pith:77VAOABA

pith:2005:77VAOABAROF7KSWIRHOW6SDETT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Zeno meets modern science

Z.K. Silagadze

arxiv:physics/0505042 v1 · 2005-05-05 · physics.pop-ph · hep-ph · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{77VAOABAROF7KSWIRHOW6SDETT}

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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	2026-05-18T04:16:21.014286Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffea0700208b8bf54ac889dd6f48649ccb29163ec7348b1243be477cf5c94b55

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0505042 · arxiv_version: physics/0505042v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0505042 · pith_short_12: 77VAOABAROF7 · pith_short_16: 77VAOABAROF7KSWI · pith_short_8: 77VAOABA

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/77VAOABAROF7KSWIRHOW6SDETT \
  | 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: ffea0700208b8bf54ac889dd6f48649ccb29163ec7348b1243be477cf5c94b55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53ee789523131d3cab6825bf61d05dd43f5fee377fb44ac0858b6011bc2c6b01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "physics.gen-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-05-05T15:08:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b07330f83efcbb7420b4a35093105a45b798316b4f6681faf51a7ee59813d308"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0505042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}