Pith Number

pith:F34HOQL5

pith:2025:F34HOQL5Z6NXWZFEYZRMCUKVE4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A.P. Balachandran: Living in Physics

V.P. Nair

arxiv:2509.06139 v1 · 2025-09-07 · physics.hist-ph · hep-ph · hep-th · math-ph · math.MP

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F34HOQL5Z6NXWZFEYZRMCUKVE4}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-07-05T12:06:30.545244Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ef877417dcf9b7b64a4c662c15155271aa239b67a987c55be3e0c58c1024cb4

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.06139 · arxiv_version: 2509.06139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.06139 · pith_short_12: F34HOQL5Z6NX · pith_short_16: F34HOQL5Z6NXWZFE · pith_short_8: F34HOQL5

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/F34HOQL5Z6NXWZFEYZRMCUKVE4 \
  | 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: 2ef877417dcf9b7b64a4c662c15155271aa239b67a987c55be3e0c58c1024cb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "320bc5fe68269fa775356392f78c665d9f915b27accc22e16afc1438f2fc8874",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-07T17:11:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c5ced8a159902e98d7e8ebaaa0bdc32a14b007985b0e8d800a9dc2e7e5d6e1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.06139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}