Pith Number

pith:JLJNZJRQ

pith:2017:JLJNZJRQBEQ3VR3H27ZINQAMNY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On testing the simulation theory

David Watkinson, Houman Owhadi, Joe Sauvageau, Tom Campbell

arxiv:1703.00058 v2 · 2017-02-28 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JLJNZJRQBEQ3VR3H27ZINQAMNY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:51.276397Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ad2dca6300921bac767d7f286c00c6e3bb2b5bf5f16abaf6fc28e1373ff9533

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00058 · arxiv_version: 1703.00058v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00058 · pith_short_12: JLJNZJRQBEQ3 · pith_short_16: JLJNZJRQBEQ3VR3H · pith_short_8: JLJNZJRQ

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/JLJNZJRQBEQ3VR3H27ZINQAMNY \
  | 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: 4ad2dca6300921bac767d7f286c00c6e3bb2b5bf5f16abaf6fc28e1373ff9533

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb51476407d67571108d0a5bc99039c8e89a2ef76058cf0a28ea22e748db5bc0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-28T21:17:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cd53e5a4fe2197e5843e00a3a9980ad0b4a0a4b0b359f856a1d69018ff07cff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}