Pith Number

pith:OPXKSQQ5

pith:2026:OPXKSQQ57JSP2AWSCU2KGIGUZY

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Physics Is All You Need? A Case Study in Physicist-Supervised AI Development of Scientific Software

Nhat-Minh Nguyen

arxiv:2605.30353 v1 · 2026-05-28 · cs.AI · astro-ph.CO · cs.HC · cs.SE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OPXKSQQ57JSP2AWSCU2KGIGUZY}

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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	2026-05-29T02:06:17.422779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

73eea9421dfa64fd02d21534a320d4ce28c0254270ed79563cc3e01717f5b58c

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30353 · arxiv_version: 2605.30353v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30353 · pith_short_12: OPXKSQQ57JSP · pith_short_16: OPXKSQQ57JSP2AWS · pith_short_8: OPXKSQQ5

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/OPXKSQQ57JSP2AWSCU2KGIGUZY \
  | 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: 73eea9421dfa64fd02d21534a320d4ce28c0254270ed79563cc3e01717f5b58c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e68cd04d6d4b4a20a4f66c71b94ab42b93010f42c920a0c11b86202fa479c380",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T17:59:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8feba50b64ffb49925cea33b741cf718ccb65b4d1a65c8b3eaaf7c6c4d6fa266"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30353",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}