Pith Number

pith:RONLB4ES

pith:2026:RONLB4ESNGXMPPBW7QON753AIO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Escape from Ostrogradsky via Hidden Ghost Parity

Neil Turok, Sam Bateman

arxiv:2607.00096 v1 · 2026-06-30 · hep-th · gr-qc · hep-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RONLB4ESNGXMPPBW7QON753AIO}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-02T00:18:34.307285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b9ab0f09269aec7bc36fc1cdff760438ca7cb6c049e4898269278eaf38aa8aa

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00096 · arxiv_version: 2607.00096v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00096 · pith_short_12: RONLB4ESNGXM · pith_short_16: RONLB4ESNGXMPPBW · pith_short_8: RONLB4ES

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/RONLB4ESNGXMPPBW7QON753AIO \
  | 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: 8b9ab0f09269aec7bc36fc1cdff760438ca7cb6c049e4898269278eaf38aa8aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac3d217c3d1f989e16e25bb41ea75c75b998f6550bf4d14a512a71a1e2d50ec6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-30T19:35:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f26e42b16e1245f4aefd565636416277decee74c580f19070ebf8ebd1d3624b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}