Pith Number

pith:IZYEUXK6

pith:2012:IZYEUXK6ISX64HTSQXVO33OBHG

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Daniel Harlow

arxiv:1207.6243 v3 · 2012-07-26 · hep-th · gr-qc

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IZYEUXK6ISX64HTSQXVO33OBHG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:10.017918Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46704a5d5e44afee1e7285eaededc1399c6d327150e05aba3bcd729f1664542a

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.6243 · arxiv_version: 1207.6243v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.6243 · pith_short_12: IZYEUXK6ISX6 · pith_short_16: IZYEUXK6ISX64HTS · pith_short_8: IZYEUXK6

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/IZYEUXK6ISX64HTSQXVO33OBHG \
  | 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: 46704a5d5e44afee1e7285eaededc1399c6d327150e05aba3bcd729f1664542a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17f24d056b3fe8377a69c9f8e1cab834d522cb72556e1f55b84efec7f35f8dd4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-26T11:34:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dbf6d4727d010888c7e78da3b3743884980f0e925e298232d0dc994bc9fed142"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.6243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}