Pith Number

pith:WAU5Z67M

pith:2013:WAU5Z67MKLNQHGJRTX4TLGO2UX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Blue Box White Paper

Benjamin K Tippett, David Tsang

arxiv:1310.7983 v1 · 2013-10-29 · physics.pop-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WAU5Z67MKLNQHGJRTX4TLGO2UX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:08:26.386472Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b029dcfbec52db0399319df93599daa5fdbbadac7e055ee14d103baf43207f89

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.7983 · arxiv_version: 1310.7983v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.7983 · pith_short_12: WAU5Z67MKLNQ · pith_short_16: WAU5Z67MKLNQHGJR · pith_short_8: WAU5Z67M

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/WAU5Z67MKLNQHGJRTX4TLGO2UX \
  | 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: b029dcfbec52db0399319df93599daa5fdbbadac7e055ee14d103baf43207f89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aeb20b845a80de21411d13b08c26750b9a608ae175430b376072e881f036339e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-29T23:28:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d75d171b21e067febfcd85ca880633bab1f39561eda3c0893906bc3d7cfd8063"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.7983",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}