Pith Number

pith:NWC6QAQG

pith:2013:NWC6QAQGJRRHWH2OPSB7JI56HM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Astronomy and the Fifth Dimension

Paul S. Wesson

arxiv:1301.0033 v1 · 2013-01-01 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NWC6QAQGJRRHWH2OPSB7JI56HM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:37:28.526580Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d85e802064c627b1f4e7c83f4a3be3b2f639ae636eea6963da5cb247a3bb6fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.0033 · arxiv_version: 1301.0033v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.0033 · pith_short_12: NWC6QAQGJRRH · pith_short_16: NWC6QAQGJRRHWH2O · pith_short_8: NWC6QAQG

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/NWC6QAQGJRRHWH2OPSB7JI56HM \
  | 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: 6d85e802064c627b1f4e7c83f4a3be3b2f639ae636eea6963da5cb247a3bb6fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae0538a3d3a26f954f9dbe53eb120376f13c01c421dbb8c0d7595fe27275dd33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-01T00:22:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f7c3064d105d7ee88a052820ccf1400a3d64f5bc8ae60e1f1e3c39d91e2dca8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.0033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}