Pith Number

pith:K3PX4ERY

pith:2012:K3PX4ERYT2IMI2AXXONP6PSPJ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ghost dissection

Attilio Cucchieri, David Dudal, Nele Vandersickel, Tereza Mendes

arxiv:1202.2208 v1 · 2012-02-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K3PX4ERYT2IMI2AXXONP6PSPJ4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:02:36.901770Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56df7e12389e90c46817bb9aff3e4f4f1183e6b00a64a5698c9a0ef7459f8d86

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.2208 · arxiv_version: 1202.2208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.2208 · pith_short_12: K3PX4ERYT2IM · pith_short_16: K3PX4ERYT2IMI2AX · pith_short_8: K3PX4ERY

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/K3PX4ERYT2IMI2AXXONP6PSPJ4 \
  | 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: 56df7e12389e90c46817bb9aff3e4f4f1183e6b00a64a5698c9a0ef7459f8d86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f3a7aef9c7c57b34a2c40279f5e46852b940e45e7d3b2908a31bdb0d9a9448a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-10T08:26:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1de82863339acd8838abc5d247f03566ccb3037e95f7a5c7b181b0ffb798afac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.2208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}