Pith Number

pith:QBTYX6VX

pith:2012:QBTYX6VXDXXXIQLBDNMJR7RFRK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maxwell's Fishpond

Claire Trant, Jiajun Tan, Navin Kandapper, Paul Kinsler, Timothy C. Y. Thio

arxiv:1206.0003 v3 · 2012-05-31 · physics.class-ph · physics.pop-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{QBTYX6VXDXXXIQLBDNMJR7RFRK}

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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	2026-05-18T03:14:39.392265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80678bfab71def7441611b5898fe258a91a79d827ce907b3dad60b06d2de5a8b

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.0003 · arxiv_version: 1206.0003v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.0003 · pith_short_12: QBTYX6VXDXXX · pith_short_16: QBTYX6VXDXXXIQLB · pith_short_8: QBTYX6VX

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/QBTYX6VXDXXXIQLBDNMJR7RFRK \
  | 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: 80678bfab71def7441611b5898fe258a91a79d827ce907b3dad60b06d2de5a8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d53886fd3e467173cb4733bb97304fbb25793d9346e10dc08c78374a6acc06da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-31T14:42:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62f89698a95b6c73e89a7d79353f558496071c5c6bccc300a0e1c3e3a81b5462"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.0003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}