Pith Number

pith:U6QNH6Z5

pith:2021:U6QNH6Z5TGYGVS5ECPWXR77VBZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Bayesian View on the Dr. Evil Scenario

Alan H. Guth, Feraz Azhar, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo

arxiv:2103.12429 v2 · 2021-03-23 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U6QNH6Z5TGYGVS5ECPWXR77VBZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T05:28:04.473440Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7a0d3fb3d99b06acba413ed78fff50e605b0ab2d08539f0988f5327f90d53ec

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.12429 · arxiv_version: 2103.12429v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.12429 · pith_short_12: U6QNH6Z5TGYG · pith_short_16: U6QNH6Z5TGYGVS5E · pith_short_8: U6QNH6Z5

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/U6QNH6Z5TGYGVS5ECPWXR77VBZ \
  | 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: a7a0d3fb3d99b06acba413ed78fff50e605b0ab2d08539f0988f5327f90d53ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "971308cb05d3e161f0aea9c10abd29e65dcc9db4cb66260bf290e3b57d08bda1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-03-23T10:13:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "826e72f6ffb81a149c9218da3152c9c3b4a0a6c4a0606092ac85a275aa2e3766"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.12429",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}