Pith Number

pith:URLREAJE

pith:2011:URLREAJE7JSUA3DNJP5M3XTDE3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The zig-zag road to reality

Howard M Wiseman, Samuel Colin

arxiv:1107.4909 v1 · 2011-07-25 · quant-ph · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{URLREAJE7JSUA3DNJP5M3XTDE3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:54.810094Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a457120124fa65406c6d4bfacdde6326e46d1ea0d431a8f1e9d8f08cd8ba35dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1107.4909 · arxiv_version: 1107.4909v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1107.4909 · pith_short_12: URLREAJE7JSU · pith_short_16: URLREAJE7JSUA3DN · pith_short_8: URLREAJE

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/URLREAJE7JSUA3DNJP5M3XTDE3 \
  | 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: a457120124fa65406c6d4bfacdde6326e46d1ea0d431a8f1e9d8f08cd8ba35dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b623fc78638d864f584f6f87a69e0e8be183e83831566d130e6a51ed1e6eff90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-07-25T12:01:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2fdecf5b934719c34fdfd0191a4765cadbc8e8ba415e78e6efd3c824eab69bec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1107.4909",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}