Pith Number

pith:A4VC7GNR

pith:2011:A4VC7GNRSZYKKNT7OVGWCLMU2K

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Hui-Chun Wu

arxiv:1104.3163 v1 · 2011-04-15 · physics.plasm-ph · astro-ph.HE · physics.acc-ph · physics.optics

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A4VC7GNRSZYKKNT7OVGWCLMU2K}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:05.671143Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

072a2f99b19670a5367f754d612d94d2a51103d41584c674e03b13a6d69d21d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.3163 · arxiv_version: 1104.3163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.3163 · pith_short_12: A4VC7GNRSZYK · pith_short_16: A4VC7GNRSZYKKNT7 · pith_short_8: A4VC7GNR

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/A4VC7GNRSZYKKNT7OVGWCLMU2K \
  | 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: 072a2f99b19670a5367f754d612d94d2a51103d41584c674e03b13a6d69d21d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86dd4a263ff9369fb642cb48ae9d572067e3f66607bc8b282c6e3c64d5cca3ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "physics.acc-ph",
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-15T21:36:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10f63afbc2b93e43c38cf398931ee58f5c3983d7cd5b74b615bd4d77251a38c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.3163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}