Pith Number

pith:VH6F63VH

pith:2015:VH6F63VHF5KYGJBMCDW7EWRG3C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Three Primordial Numbers

Diederik Roest, Enrico Pajer, Roberto Gobbetti

arxiv:1505.00968 v2 · 2015-05-05 · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VH6F63VHF5KYGJBMCDW7EWRG3C}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:31:02.885737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9fc5f6ea72f5583242c10edf25a26d8817be5e59d07d3ad98979ee73e317c58

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.00968 · arxiv_version: 1505.00968v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.00968 · pith_short_12: VH6F63VHF5KY · pith_short_16: VH6F63VHF5KYGJBM · pith_short_8: VH6F63VH

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/VH6F63VHF5KYGJBMCDW7EWRG3C \
  | 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: a9fc5f6ea72f5583242c10edf25a26d8817be5e59d07d3ad98979ee73e317c58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40cc46cbb1ddca714002af75c5f6c2ee426d8d04b28336191fbaa36211eebc06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-05T11:47:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "146100c23caa0e7f377f2f72c40ccd5fa9fe919e0a4c9f282ca680a8f17b0275"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.00968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}