Pith Number

pith:ESZZJCXJ

pith:2016:ESZZJCXJWDSESGL7QGH6CFPNT5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

There and back again: A T-brane's tale

Iosif Bena, Johan Bl{\aa}b\"ack, Raffaele Savelli, Ruben Minasian

arxiv:1608.01221 v1 · 2016-08-03 · hep-th

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ESZZJCXJWDSESGL7QGH6CFPNT5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:35.121363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

24b3948ae9b0e449197f818fe115ed9f52fc4b600bb8a11ed56836d55028114d

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.01221 · arxiv_version: 1608.01221v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.01221 · pith_short_12: ESZZJCXJWDSE · pith_short_16: ESZZJCXJWDSESGL7 · pith_short_8: ESZZJCXJ

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/ESZZJCXJWDSESGL7QGH6CFPNT5 \
  | 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: 24b3948ae9b0e449197f818fe115ed9f52fc4b600bb8a11ed56836d55028114d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "11823fe999a672dff2464e6b889254a4034ee263630e2da3ae52e9b83143ef02",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-03T15:21:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3458a10f96a8d05834f6130e0c66bf817c90d0d5c48d2d68d1e5f428764e80e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.01221",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}