Pith Number

pith:BRGYS7QG

pith:2017:BRGYS7QGSIR25NTAB3JWB4F3J4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How We Make Sense of the World: Information, Map-Making, and The Scientific Narrative

Damian Sowinski, Marcelo Gleiser

arxiv:1710.09944 v1 · 2017-10-26 · physics.hist-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BRGYS7QGSIR25NTAB3JWB4F3J4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:19:41.652722Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c4d897e069223aeb6600ed360f0bb4f1a211f140b4920efccd5bc3f9027a394

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09944 · arxiv_version: 1710.09944v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09944 · pith_short_12: BRGYS7QGSIR2 · pith_short_16: BRGYS7QGSIR25NTA · pith_short_8: BRGYS7QG

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/BRGYS7QGSIR25NTAB3JWB4F3J4 \
  | 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: 0c4d897e069223aeb6600ed360f0bb4f1a211f140b4920efccd5bc3f9027a394

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb96f6c675aaf3b241078b3d70934bb1c4907aea2ea16a14435eff01d1bd7ffe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-26T23:20:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a267a4f821ff4d773848ff74941ed02e9bd06cfed1ef69a97be55099403f52c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09944",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}