Pith Number

pith:OYVDOKIZ

pith:2007:OYVDOKIZIT2N77557KS4YVWLS3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

"Gravitational mass" of information?

Laszlo B. Kish

arxiv:0711.1197 v4 · 2007-11-08 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OYVDOKIZIT2N77557KS4YVWLS3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:09:04.695509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

762a37291944f4dfffbdfaa5cc56cb96cb56fe6d1d7a2c999e335e7d63a19554

Aliases

arxiv: 0711.1197 · arxiv_version: 0711.1197v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0711.1197 · pith_short_12: OYVDOKIZIT2N · pith_short_16: OYVDOKIZIT2N7755 · pith_short_8: OYVDOKIZ

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/OYVDOKIZIT2N77557KS4YVWLS3 \
  | 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: 762a37291944f4dfffbdfaa5cc56cb96cb56fe6d1d7a2c999e335e7d63a19554

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "603ef053c089fd60c8689ac3ca7e16d72ce6959366c6f8ff3da92d4eede0c954",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-11-08T19:53:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b975191cd800e6dceb25729876ac29ad2d80138fb9d84b901b01d675da10697"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0711.1197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}