Pith Number

pith:CKXRBYIS

pith:1999:CKXRBYISS7ENGIASWYNOXB43LY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Universe of Chaos and Quanta

B.G. Sidharth

arxiv:quant-ph/9902028 v1 · 1999-02-08 · quant-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{CKXRBYISS7ENGIASWYNOXB43LY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:52.648687Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12af10e11297c8d32012b61aeb879b5e3912e8b79e3e19fd514fdb8de15096d6

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9902028 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9902028v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9902028 · pith_short_12: CKXRBYISS7EN · pith_short_16: CKXRBYISS7ENGIAS · pith_short_8: CKXRBYIS

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/CKXRBYISS7ENGIASWYNOXB43LY \
  | 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: 12af10e11297c8d32012b61aeb879b5e3912e8b79e3e19fd514fdb8de15096d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6686439c4ce673d9bdd181ce584980e46c730f4932c4276abd38f669c4c72e3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-02-08T13:28:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2eb18162b9269116d72abce6c7adbf7f557147f5105c4d55d4fc9f0d92df59ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9902028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}