Pith Number

pith:WV5FLFY4

pith:2018:WV5FLFY4Q2LORXTHHQXAHAQH5L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Voltmeter in series?

Robert Mingesz, Zoltan gingl

arxiv:1812.03798 v2 · 2018-12-07 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WV5FLFY4Q2LORXTHHQXAHAQH5L}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:42.687864Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b57a55971c8696e8de673c2e038207eade4e59a8b931e4baffc5b4a2330ed8af

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.03798 · arxiv_version: 1812.03798v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.03798 · pith_short_12: WV5FLFY4Q2LO · pith_short_16: WV5FLFY4Q2LORXTH · pith_short_8: WV5FLFY4

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/WV5FLFY4Q2LORXTHHQXAHAQH5L \
  | 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: b57a55971c8696e8de673c2e038207eade4e59a8b931e4baffc5b4a2330ed8af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44970b36ddb2c0c09a2f9943d119fda058edb6683187d9a25c09a2ede0cd3f58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-07T06:59:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c38de7a8e03b228b99d11584b43911f2a8f7d6bcc98c229ce6bb8f93cb6b514c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.03798",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}