Pith Number

pith:RJ7DIYUV

pith:2012:RJ7DIYUVEG5TFO2EQAK734NFPL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse

Andreas Albrecht, Daniel Phillips

arxiv:1212.0953 v3 · 2012-12-05 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RJ7DIYUVEG5TFO2EQAK734NFPL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:31:12.277237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a7e34629521bb32bb448015fdf1a57ac2639779427e2a7c4d2731bcf3519726

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0953 · arxiv_version: 1212.0953v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0953 · pith_short_12: RJ7DIYUVEG5T · pith_short_16: RJ7DIYUVEG5TFO2E · pith_short_8: RJ7DIYUV

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/RJ7DIYUVEG5TFO2EQAK734NFPL \
  | 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: 8a7e34629521bb32bb448015fdf1a57ac2639779427e2a7c4d2731bcf3519726

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04ef07387832d46979d748da06ec050005dd53146d7788400c76ac682b60094e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-05T07:45:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "752d4ebf54963682b29d699dc8370d20b8985842b6ff9f52184f7d5c27d5b585"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}