Pith Number

pith:VQRHFM6R

pith:2023:VQRHFM6RGHG62E3HYB5YYRKF5N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Just a MeerKAT, or a dark matter machine?

Geoff Beck, Sphesihle Makhathini

arxiv:2301.07910 v1 · 2023-01-19 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQRHFM6RGHG62E3HYB5YYRKF5N}

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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	2026-07-05T05:34:20.457153Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac2272b3d131cded1367c07b8c4545eb63671239b54a97072bae334386e8abb6

Aliases

arxiv: 2301.07910 · arxiv_version: 2301.07910v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.07910 · pith_short_12: VQRHFM6RGHG6 · pith_short_16: VQRHFM6RGHG62E3H · pith_short_8: VQRHFM6R

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/VQRHFM6RGHG62E3HYB5YYRKF5N \
  | 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: ac2272b3d131cded1367c07b8c4545eb63671239b54a97072bae334386e8abb6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "febae14eca1fe746c87a84d93eaea5501d0c87febb239347ef1b263d9c14cf92",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-01-19T06:41:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "801ff5541462226118a71e3588b534b66f1175315396e638a7f2792634795c24"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2301.07910",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}