Pith Number

pith:HKHH6SUL

pith:2026:HKHH6SUL3U6XPXDT5DN5IKHHRT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maxwell's Demon

R. E. Kastner

arxiv:2605.17196 v1 · 2026-05-16 · quant-ph · physics.data-an · physics.hist-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{HKHH6SUL3U6XPXDT5DN5IKHHRT}

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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	2026-05-20T00:03:44.573191Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a8e7f4a8bdd3d77dc73e8dbd428e78cf21cf9fb16035a824385d724b7db4d7d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17196 · arxiv_version: 2605.17196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17196 · pith_short_12: HKHH6SUL3U6X · pith_short_16: HKHH6SUL3U6XPXDT · pith_short_8: HKHH6SUL

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/HKHH6SUL3U6XPXDT5DN5IKHHRT \
  | 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: 3a8e7f4a8bdd3d77dc73e8dbd428e78cf21cf9fb16035a824385d724b7db4d7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23bea47344f2380dce40856290319ce08d8f527799687250d9c62b1c52b4d82b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T23:49:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46004ce88304d8628a43139dc7695c63d891ea3e09b6a1c285fa1e4c7ac748e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}