Pith Number

pith:KDCN4UTS

pith:2016:KDCN4UTSWC73B4FHBHCOCTGOET

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What is Physics: The individual and the universal, and seeing past the noise

A. R. P. Rau

arxiv:1605.03106 v1 · 2016-05-09 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KDCN4UTSWC73B4FHBHCOCTGOET}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:14.723845Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50c4de5272b0bfb0f0a709c4e14cce24cf7855f5f6fa63bf24551a0cb74b4625

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.03106 · arxiv_version: 1605.03106v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.03106 · pith_short_12: KDCN4UTSWC73 · pith_short_16: KDCN4UTSWC73B4FH · pith_short_8: KDCN4UTS

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/KDCN4UTSWC73B4FHBHCOCTGOET \
  | 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: 50c4de5272b0bfb0f0a709c4e14cce24cf7855f5f6fa63bf24551a0cb74b4625

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc21ef1506f46b0b8cd81e0ef56254067a5363591f10c7bd72ffd3c9ac7b17db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-09T19:41:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25e0661dbcdc4dcb1a1a8a7997a10f912d60d76bdcf4832636973512f49cd969"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.03106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}