Pith Number

pith:MDHDBIDS

pith:2016:MDHDBIDS7CGPIZ3F5Q2YDJRBH6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maxwell Matters

Bob Eisenberg

arxiv:1607.06691 v4 · 2016-07-19 · physics.bio-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDHDBIDS7CGPIZ3F5Q2YDJRBH6}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:36.116348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60ce30a072f88cf46765ec3581a6213f93f4d53a889ce200a09ad964a7151876

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.06691 · arxiv_version: 1607.06691v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.06691 · pith_short_12: MDHDBIDS7CGP · pith_short_16: MDHDBIDS7CGPIZ3F · pith_short_8: MDHDBIDS

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/MDHDBIDS7CGPIZ3F5Q2YDJRBH6 \
  | 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: 60ce30a072f88cf46765ec3581a6213f93f4d53a889ce200a09ad964a7151876

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1680b4745f264f133508c65c33eca2f7d88d46b3a7669e02ea5a8570e5933be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-19T12:53:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4fd1e5d1ab9d0a4f02e834a9779666841701fdad99379cac40032de3e310f2fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.06691",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}