Pith Number

pith:KAJK4VSX

pith:2014:KAJK4VSXFRUGTB4LQW4YQLOLKY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From state distinguishability to effective bulk locality

Joan Simon, Nima Lashkari

arxiv:1402.4829 v1 · 2014-02-19 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KAJK4VSXFRUGTB4LQW4YQLOLKY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:44:36.045913Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5012ae56572c6869878b85b9882dcb562ceb1ef43adfe42739d22cb36ef264c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.4829 · arxiv_version: 1402.4829v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.4829 · pith_short_12: KAJK4VSXFRUG · pith_short_16: KAJK4VSXFRUGTB4L · pith_short_8: KAJK4VSX

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/KAJK4VSXFRUGTB4LQW4YQLOLKY \
  | 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: 5012ae56572c6869878b85b9882dcb562ceb1ef43adfe42739d22cb36ef264c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81f022fb84cc471a973d6da7536f726df7a269a3713bfad58b79b2fb483ddd7e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-19T21:12:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a988bd715ce95f12b12caf98f8dcf82ceff59d0ebcf7368ff9235445f516fa01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.4829",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}