Pith Number

pith:ADU6FVCW

pith:2012:ADU6FVCWOZYGP5FMYRDW7P6H7A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Modeling Time's Arrow

Chia-Hsiung Tze, Djordje Minic, Michael Kavic, Vishnu Jejjala

arxiv:1203.4575 v1 · 2012-03-20 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ADU6FVCWOZYGP5FMYRDW7P6H7A}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:05.271985Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

00e9e2d456767067f4acc4476fbfc7f8236cc949d6e93f50f8718e5bfdd0a390

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4575 · arxiv_version: 1203.4575v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4575 · pith_short_12: ADU6FVCWOZYG · pith_short_16: ADU6FVCWOZYGP5FM · pith_short_8: ADU6FVCW

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/ADU6FVCWOZYGP5FMYRDW7P6H7A \
  | 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: 00e9e2d456767067f4acc4476fbfc7f8236cc949d6e93f50f8718e5bfdd0a390

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5556dc37afc7c581d5c592307450a39fabcc079db8d0e7c9fae7802b43a614bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-20T20:06:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c4a0df39af28d354afa23ef73b2744fa9916c4d828e09b841dd3af8be0a1262"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4575",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}