Pith Number

pith:C2MWLVXA

pith:2006:C2MWLVXAG7YRVXLIEWQUB5BADS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Blueprint for a rotating Univers

George Chapline

arxiv:astro-ph/0608389 v3 · 2006-08-17 · astro-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C2MWLVXAG7YRVXLIEWQUB5BADS}

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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	2026-07-04T14:55:50.847761Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

169965d6e037f11add6825a140f4201c852c81599af3f6730a5f591e396664fa

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0608389 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0608389v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0608389 · pith_short_12: C2MWLVXAG7YR · pith_short_16: C2MWLVXAG7YRVXLI · pith_short_8: C2MWLVXA

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/C2MWLVXAG7YRVXLIEWQUB5BADS \
  | 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: 169965d6e037f11add6825a140f4201c852c81599af3f6730a5f591e396664fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e882841e319aa5f33e70b59b42d5c36ea31ff6309b4ed5808e57f88bb589ea76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-08-17T23:56:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0bddc0dcaf03645b961f844eff69c80d2e947531f670fc8902c3ab8b7ce0f2df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0608389",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}