Pith Number

pith:HFYR2YW2

pith:2015:HFYR2YW2NXTPNDDXAQFLB6ZBFR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-local beables

Lee Smolin

arxiv:1507.08576 v1 · 2015-07-30 · 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{HFYR2YW2NXTPNDDXAQFLB6ZBFR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:06.091945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39711d62da6de6f68c77040ab0fb212c76955b1a55246573817e0c43a7f2984a

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.08576 · arxiv_version: 1507.08576v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.08576 · pith_short_12: HFYR2YW2NXTP · pith_short_16: HFYR2YW2NXTPNDDX · pith_short_8: HFYR2YW2

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/HFYR2YW2NXTPNDDXAQFLB6ZBFR \
  | 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: 39711d62da6de6f68c77040ab0fb212c76955b1a55246573817e0c43a7f2984a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87c4571fb20647236c0ffa22f007e0d01f0137e624a73a8a7e0204a50cd152ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-30T16:46:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06a4ae6d0681c2802fa2414ccdc9ce854d360952a889d1bef59b65b65cd6434e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.08576",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}