Pith Number

pith:WJRFH67Y

pith:2000:WJRFH67Y2PQLB2LABVZRNZOCFS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fractal Statistics

B.G. Sidharth

arxiv:physics/0008063 v1 · 2000-08-15 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WJRFH67Y2PQLB2LABVZRNZOCFS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:11.404494Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b26253fbf8d3e0b0e9600d7316e5c22ca2d773a45b5fb1669184efcad8f0e07e

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0008063 · arxiv_version: physics/0008063v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0008063 · pith_short_12: WJRFH67Y2PQL · pith_short_16: WJRFH67Y2PQLB2LA · pith_short_8: WJRFH67Y

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/WJRFH67Y2PQLB2LABVZRNZOCFS \
  | 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: b26253fbf8d3e0b0e9600d7316e5c22ca2d773a45b5fb1669184efcad8f0e07e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a923acb0027a9db63deb7bf7bbf80e65b72c0506e9ad154895b3a99050e7b27f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-08-15T07:49:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19df653005d8593e8fa4648f4e5eda65561d489bb8e820f303601927528ea083"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0008063",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}