Pith Number

pith:BYUVKJIM

pith:2008:BYUVKJIMJ7JMHLB76N4FUSQUGH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Consumption of Reference Resources

G. A. White, H. M. Wiseman, J. A. Vaccaro

arxiv:0811.3660 v1 · 2008-11-22 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BYUVKJIMJ7JMHLB76N4FUSQUGH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:15:13.514378Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e2955250c4fd2c3ac3ff3785a4a1431e5130bb0e6ff3a0a0b99514b0f234345

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.3660 · arxiv_version: 0811.3660v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.3660 · pith_short_12: BYUVKJIMJ7JM · pith_short_16: BYUVKJIMJ7JMHLB7 · pith_short_8: BYUVKJIM

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/BYUVKJIMJ7JMHLB76N4FUSQUGH \
  | 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: 0e2955250c4fd2c3ac3ff3785a4a1431e5130bb0e6ff3a0a0b99514b0f234345

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7993385640b72df70d529acc78a97caece57418507d673befe7de5be2470bc4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-22T06:11:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c6a86f347edec12b97f001c0ca52f8d7db0e852f1b8fac59cc29b1b702a5281"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.3660",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}