Pith Number

pith:Q2VK3OYQ

pith:2016:Q2VK3OYQCWBQECN6DVZ35BQSGY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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David Shih, Jared A. Evans

arxiv:1606.00003 v1 · 2016-05-31 · hep-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2VK3OYQCWBQECN6DVZ35BQSGY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:09.229713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86aaadbb1015830209be1d73be8612362947f215d438b9fd09ccc5f454a14c0f

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.00003 · arxiv_version: 1606.00003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.00003 · pith_short_12: Q2VK3OYQCWBQ · pith_short_16: Q2VK3OYQCWBQECN6 · pith_short_8: Q2VK3OYQ

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/Q2VK3OYQCWBQECN6DVZ35BQSGY \
  | 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: 86aaadbb1015830209be1d73be8612362947f215d438b9fd09ccc5f454a14c0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d119339980b8204875a0c0c8fa005b349331549f873f7aaf010fa69eee3cf495",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-31T20:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf30db86f09fb14154f4dbfa8f4ce0e3a6ca673e7d125e94789ca2a86c741d05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.00003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}