Pith Number

pith:RLVMZWZR

pith:2003:RLVMZWZRFMKUIXYRPXAYTGYEP5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Preposterous Universe

Alejandro Gangui

arxiv:astro-ph/0303048 v1 · 2003-03-03 · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-ph · hep-th · 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{RLVMZWZRFMKUIXYRPXAYTGYEP5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:01.164745Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8aeaccdb312b15445f117dc1899b047f40cde023bde30efd2276eca742990a0b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0303048 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0303048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0303048 · pith_short_12: RLVMZWZRFMKU · pith_short_16: RLVMZWZRFMKUIXYR · pith_short_8: RLVMZWZR

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/RLVMZWZRFMKUIXYRPXAYTGYEP5 \
  | 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: 8aeaccdb312b15445f117dc1899b047f40cde023bde30efd2276eca742990a0b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f23a6d5fda1c215f82c6eb1cc2ba4024f31327e18f2f9bd258472984432bed61",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-03T19:41:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84bc4b5bb76ecbfc930f62360443a11e30ba6805a99489775029706b89e52bed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0303048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}