Pith Number

pith:WBMRPYG4

pith:2016:WBMRPYG4M5Y4JKO6VRLK4GTYSQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scientific Realism and Primordial Cosmology

Feraz Azhar, Jeremy Butterfield

arxiv:1606.04071 v1 · 2016-06-13 · physics.hist-ph · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WBMRPYG4M5Y4JKO6VRLK4GTYSQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:32.254581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b05917e0dc6771c4a9deac56ae1a789403617141c2c5c0b10e7353421b603a1e

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.04071 · arxiv_version: 1606.04071v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.04071 · pith_short_12: WBMRPYG4M5Y4 · pith_short_16: WBMRPYG4M5Y4JKO6 · pith_short_8: WBMRPYG4

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/WBMRPYG4M5Y4JKO6VRLK4GTYSQ \
  | 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: b05917e0dc6771c4a9deac56ae1a789403617141c2c5c0b10e7353421b603a1e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1e280b1564df80eb468248fcc61f645f921ce4423d757df3755dd088c84600f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-13T19:09:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a5182cdb76a0e7d957cfa47358666097f8182e4393f4a58feda5cfd3cdeba0c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.04071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}