Pith Number

pith:VCNXTV3S

pith:2010:VCNXTV3SX3TY4DW75Z4QIE67TA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The "Relativistic" Mug

L. B. Okun

arxiv:1010.5400 v1 · 2010-10-26 · physics.pop-ph · hep-ph · physics.ed-ph · physics.hist-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{VCNXTV3SX3TY4DW75Z4QIE67TA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:38.173242Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a89b79d772bee78e0edfee790413df9835a5a2cad185e30313aaccf514c8654c

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.5400 · arxiv_version: 1010.5400v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.5400 · pith_short_12: VCNXTV3SX3TY · pith_short_16: VCNXTV3SX3TY4DW7 · pith_short_8: VCNXTV3S

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/VCNXTV3SX3TY4DW75Z4QIE67TA \
  | 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: a89b79d772bee78e0edfee790413df9835a5a2cad185e30313aaccf514c8654c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fe8679e78d0e2fc01742c2614cee1d9602e038b21aa6032b09ea01e2dc51a16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "physics.ed-ph",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-26T14:11:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc9efff5c4c37f8a034c1a0d06eaf296545c7c2d69837538fcdba5044ac22680"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.5400",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}