Pith Number

pith:KRL2SMWO

pith:2002:KRL2SMWOK2R7OS6C2ROS5Q2RAA

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The New Cosmos

B.G. Sidharth

arxiv:physics/0211111 v1 · 2002-11-27 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KRL2SMWOK2R7OS6C2ROS5Q2RAA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:09.069101Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5457a932ce56a3f74bc2d45d2ec3510011c63ccfd9bbd31c540b831b81f30c7b

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0211111 · arxiv_version: physics/0211111v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0211111 · pith_short_12: KRL2SMWOK2R7 · pith_short_16: KRL2SMWOK2R7OS6C · pith_short_8: KRL2SMWO

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/KRL2SMWOK2R7OS6C2ROS5Q2RAA \
  | 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: 5457a932ce56a3f74bc2d45d2ec3510011c63ccfd9bbd31c540b831b81f30c7b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a95bcd146940d68af3cc4ee0c48183ab036962b10dd1ec6acae6e7fcb05ea9e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-11-27T15:35:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7275669cb5a61ad45dd0c949feba0f91b145aa6bfd3827488e8480b2461516ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0211111",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}