Pith Number

pith:J7LNTWX3

pith:2026:J7LNTWX3IVAV52M3FIIG7SVK4W

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The Locality Gap: A Thermodynamic Law for Objective Facts

Maxim V. Churilov

arxiv:2608.05753 v1 · 2026-08-06 · quant-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J7LNTWX3IVAV52M3FIIG7SVK4W}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-07T00:52:41.848722Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fd6d9dafb45415ee99b2a106fcaaae5b741cab2d42a4a0028ece5442cbbe43c

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05753 · arxiv_version: 2608.05753v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05753 · pith_short_12: J7LNTWX3IVAV · pith_short_16: J7LNTWX3IVAV52M3 · pith_short_8: J7LNTWX3

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/J7LNTWX3IVAV52M3FIIG7SVK4W \
  | 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: 4fd6d9dafb45415ee99b2a106fcaaae5b741cab2d42a4a0028ece5442cbbe43c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d01ed4a97cb2c55089c64837810658ed99ca00fd0501a760a777d5c2b872552a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T08:38:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8668053c730b93cbfed875109485f0f3722d656e775c2a7e417fe239f4f02fc3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05753",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}