Pith Number

pith:JBJNRSBB

pith:2025:JBJNRSBBUEXUKY6FIPHE5G3Z3Y

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arxiv:2505.16202 v1 · 2025-05-22 · 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{JBJNRSBBUEXUKY6FIPHE5G3Z3Y}

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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	2026-07-05T11:07:31.647053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4852d8c821a12f4563c543ce4e9b79de3083b7ae4b2a166ec738126bc7670c79

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.16202 · arxiv_version: 2505.16202v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.16202 · pith_short_12: JBJNRSBBUEXU · pith_short_16: JBJNRSBBUEXUKY6F · pith_short_8: JBJNRSBB

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/JBJNRSBBUEXUKY6FIPHE5G3Z3Y \
  | 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: 4852d8c821a12f4563c543ce4e9b79de3083b7ae4b2a166ec738126bc7670c79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b4ddfd05172eb3956a997682a5503573f2d764d2dd897917b89d3b55d12b6a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-22T04:08:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa0ebec7dac3b42c57190a325621d3df34a99c83141838a8ccbd70de285d8c6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.16202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}