Pith Number

pith:CHL4R6GX

pith:2013:CHL4R6GXHP3JN2OCDR4ZNADX6F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Uncertainty, incompleteness, chance, and design

Fernando Sols

arxiv:1301.7036 v3 · 2013-01-29 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CHL4R6GXHP3JN2OCDR4ZNADX6F}

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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	2026-05-18T03:28:41.989550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

11d7c8f8d73bf696e9c21c79968077f17e31b7ee1744fdb05f3a33751b2b3965

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.7036 · arxiv_version: 1301.7036v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.7036 · pith_short_12: CHL4R6GXHP3J · pith_short_16: CHL4R6GXHP3JN2OC · pith_short_8: CHL4R6GX

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/CHL4R6GXHP3JN2OCDR4ZNADX6F \
  | 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: 11d7c8f8d73bf696e9c21c79968077f17e31b7ee1744fdb05f3a33751b2b3965

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8b445a85a3540bb3d7920f92b89b39eb5c922f0c69577d0cdb1d6c27c3fd23f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-29T19:43:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c3be1c55ba422a8ea93ad099acc123538310ccc7e52e48126c5b79441d7ea8b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.7036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}