Pith Number

pith:JGVU2OAX

pith:2016:JGVU2OAX7TEXK2MSH45IRJM25P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Semantics of Information

Daegene Song

arxiv:1611.02980 v2 · 2016-11-07 · physics.gen-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{JGVU2OAX7TEXK2MSH45IRJM25P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:41.957195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

49ab4d3817fcc97569923f3a88a59aebec53bd05380a96681e414a555240118b

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.02980 · arxiv_version: 1611.02980v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.02980 · pith_short_12: JGVU2OAX7TEX · pith_short_16: JGVU2OAX7TEXK2MS · pith_short_8: JGVU2OAX

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/JGVU2OAX7TEXK2MSH45IRJM25P \
  | 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: 49ab4d3817fcc97569923f3a88a59aebec53bd05380a96681e414a555240118b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51dbc77dfbcce130e5b5557b61b172d20bb8428445418accfed19ce3aef4f61e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-07T11:56:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63df3cb89e7c460ed8650d23becedfa382223167445cef0a816cebe868b35f5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.02980",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}