Pith Number

pith:NCXPJFMJ

pith:2016:NCXPJFMJP43RAU3WLB272REQ47

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Contemporary State of Fundamental Physical Research and the Future Path to Scientific Knowledge

J. Prochazka, Milos V. Lokajicek

arxiv:1610.08331 v3 · 2016-10-14 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NCXPJFMJP43RAU3WLB272REQ47}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:57.624112Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68aef495897f371053765875fd4490e7f4d17998e4f8b58017903ce893141e58

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.08331 · arxiv_version: 1610.08331v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.08331 · pith_short_12: NCXPJFMJP43R · pith_short_16: NCXPJFMJP43RAU3W · pith_short_8: NCXPJFMJ

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/NCXPJFMJP43RAU3WLB272REQ47 \
  | 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: 68aef495897f371053765875fd4490e7f4d17998e4f8b58017903ce893141e58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35cb98362192167110c08bd5ae224e904269d155600a66ddd91bbea2b764a401",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-14T16:14:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf59de710003a59fd7fd2ad580082930ced19355cd9f397e4a53cfdb4eae96db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.08331",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}