Pith Number

pith:VDQEVRMI

pith:2011:VDQEVRMIGKYVR5PSIX6LF3WMLB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time of Philosophers, Time of Physicists, Time of Mathematicians

Fabien Besnard

arxiv:1104.4551 v2 · 2011-04-23 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDQEVRMIGKYVR5PSIX6LF3WMLB}

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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	2026-05-18T02:22:01.199666Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8e04ac58832b158f5f245fcb2eecc584566f9d13d90a0e6b7f58fed30728653

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.4551 · arxiv_version: 1104.4551v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.4551 · pith_short_12: VDQEVRMIGKYV · pith_short_16: VDQEVRMIGKYVR5PS · pith_short_8: VDQEVRMI

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/VDQEVRMIGKYVR5PSIX6LF3WMLB \
  | 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: a8e04ac58832b158f5f245fcb2eecc584566f9d13d90a0e6b7f58fed30728653

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46164f4107efabd37f5ed74e7a9d99940e0e55cb9e993202e1af90122578de03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-23T12:04:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3287bad5d73d4d2179a0a313eb9d6961f6a701ef25eb9acdf910bacb58a83f5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.4551",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}