Pith Number

pith:WLID6UPM

pith:2001:WLID6UPMYQ63XJKLZYCNLSKII7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do the Laws of Nature and Physics Agree About What is Allowed and Forbidden?

Mario Rabinowitz

arxiv:physics/0104001 v1 · 2001-03-31 · physics.hist-ph · physics.gen-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WLID6UPMYQ63XJKLZYCNLSKII7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:04.571591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2d03f51ecc43dbba54bce04d5c94847ed0c83ca5b36014a6552bd700ef139f0

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0104001 · arxiv_version: physics/0104001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0104001 · pith_short_12: WLID6UPMYQ63 · pith_short_16: WLID6UPMYQ63XJKL · pith_short_8: WLID6UPM

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/WLID6UPMYQ63XJKLZYCNLSKII7 \
  | 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: b2d03f51ecc43dbba54bce04d5c94847ed0c83ca5b36014a6552bd700ef139f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0fdb4917301f154a535c46f4b1e3cd9b2a387fb07cb967cab883168160f9f71d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.gen-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-03-31T02:02:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba42cbde1a38e19ff6f29bac7f500547885061accfe09d35277666549a015330"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0104001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}