Pith Number

pith:T2B2ORYL

pith:2013:T2B2ORYLTHXHYRMCA4D7SUEZT6

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What Einstein meant when he said "God does not play dice ..."

Vasant Natarajan

arxiv:1301.1656 v1 · 2013-01-05 · physics.pop-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T2B2ORYLTHXHYRMCA4D7SUEZT6}

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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	2026-05-18T03:36:56.987300Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e83a7470b99ee7c45820707f950999f98cd8441de5f111e7e7a5b5d4af4cdf7

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.1656 · arxiv_version: 1301.1656v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.1656 · pith_short_12: T2B2ORYLTHXH · pith_short_16: T2B2ORYLTHXHYRMC · pith_short_8: T2B2ORYL

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/T2B2ORYLTHXHYRMCA4D7SUEZT6 \
  | 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: 9e83a7470b99ee7c45820707f950999f98cd8441de5f111e7e7a5b5d4af4cdf7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d41f8a046ccc7f7c834f8210ea7bfe7d57f6199193cdc579a813d16ad3c51da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-05T05:45:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb8b4d57d5210fc81f072a25efdfec233b05b88cf15b571b9a034960590487bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.1656",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}