Pith Number

pith:PVHQZMQJ

pith:2015:PVHQZMQJLGKV5X7ZD2E2RSEA5V

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The exoplanets analogy to the Multiverse

Osame Kinouchi

arxiv:1506.08060 v1 · 2015-06-16 · physics.gen-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PVHQZMQJLGKV5X7ZD2E2RSEA5V}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:48.159920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d4f0cb20959955edff91e89a8c880ed4913d30d1f0f7957d7d293abdc6fef79

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.08060 · arxiv_version: 1506.08060v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.08060 · pith_short_12: PVHQZMQJLGKV · pith_short_16: PVHQZMQJLGKV5X7Z · pith_short_8: PVHQZMQJ

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/PVHQZMQJLGKV5X7ZD2E2RSEA5V \
  | 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: 7d4f0cb20959955edff91e89a8c880ed4913d30d1f0f7957d7d293abdc6fef79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f55078892d7313275f74a1d3725915762c4396501b65ee38113b03d5afee6f0c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-16T22:42:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c76fe24ca1bc1307831cb62e5500af9483dc272b026d0cec166688fbc6dcd47"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.08060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}