Pith Number

pith:APN4WGHY

pith:2014:APN4WGHYAWB4UGACQKAI7QFM77

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are There Many Worlds?

Austin Gerig

arxiv:1406.7215 v2 · 2014-06-16 · physics.hist-ph · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{APN4WGHYAWB4UGACQKAI7QFM77}

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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	2026-05-18T02:41:52.114026Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03dbcb18f80583ca180282808fc0acffd42272c0be28dff3f77e7d832c008469

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.7215 · arxiv_version: 1406.7215v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.7215 · pith_short_12: APN4WGHYAWB4 · pith_short_16: APN4WGHYAWB4UGAC · pith_short_8: APN4WGHY

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/APN4WGHYAWB4UGACQKAI7QFM77 \
  | 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: 03dbcb18f80583ca180282808fc0acffd42272c0be28dff3f77e7d832c008469

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96bbbbffc534a22e72a3f910ab6db3aff468758952254989c2ab6da44111b00b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-16T02:59:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53990e1a5d9654af3b90758040a5fc14811fdb5c0d6e423da6be0d811f1dfb8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.7215",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}