Pith Number

pith:HLMS3JRP

pith:2026:HLMS3JRPKAXLS52TP4MQYZYEGC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Balancing innovation and assimilation in research communities

Bill Nunn, Marcel Ortgiese, Maria Horner, Tim Rogers

arxiv:2607.12920 v1 · 2026-07-14 · physics.soc-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{HLMS3JRPKAXLS52TP4MQYZYEGC}

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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	2026-07-15T01:22:25.223983Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ad92da62f502eb977537f190c670430aa3accb702d6a6ef07cbd3fd7d560a6e

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.12920 · arxiv_version: 2607.12920v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.12920 · pith_short_12: HLMS3JRPKAXL · pith_short_16: HLMS3JRPKAXLS52T · pith_short_8: HLMS3JRP

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/HLMS3JRPKAXLS52TP4MQYZYEGC \
  | 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: 3ad92da62f502eb977537f190c670430aa3accb702d6a6ef07cbd3fd7d560a6e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dda39da9662e67b847a428f45d8ffb14fdbc8174573b0add9f3a1ec265432f2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-14T15:55:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e76d6669190b9bf558fa379a2fbf4dd0109815677acb7c9b556e81443b1618a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.12920",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}