Pith Number

pith:VDMDR4BC

pith:2010:VDMDR4BC3Q56MEHQMVM3IXXT6I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

(0,2) Elephants

Ilarion V. Melnikov, M. Ronen Plesser, Paul S. Aspinwall

arxiv:1008.2156 v2 · 2010-08-12 · hep-th

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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	2026-05-18T02:05:48.960944Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8d838f022dc3be610f06559b45ef3f20986948087d8af7968e90de56ad7d7fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.2156 · arxiv_version: 1008.2156v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.2156 · pith_short_12: VDMDR4BC3Q56 · pith_short_16: VDMDR4BC3Q56MEHQ · pith_short_8: VDMDR4BC

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/VDMDR4BC3Q56MEHQMVM3IXXT6I \
  | 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: a8d838f022dc3be610f06559b45ef3f20986948087d8af7968e90de56ad7d7fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0506954833f45f850e902822181716185f6cc98383b8af2e98076a61df6bfae2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-12T16:04:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "567da9427c5380f454ae9f0772c2c198da5487ec406317025b73dccca3629d25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.2156",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}