Pith Number

pith:XHENFUVX

pith:2026:XHENFUVXLPKOAWKLDC4ZEEMVNM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Superselected ghost theory: real spectrum

Bob Holdom

arxiv:2608.06605 v1 · 2026-08-06 · hep-th

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XHENFUVXLPKOAWKLDC4ZEEMVNM}

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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	2026-08-10T01:11:27.929323Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9c8d2d2b75bd4e0594b18b99211956b0f86b68813e9042e4a896455468e2c80

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06605 · arxiv_version: 2608.06605v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06605 · pith_short_12: XHENFUVXLPKO · pith_short_16: XHENFUVXLPKOAWKL · pith_short_8: XHENFUVX

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/XHENFUVXLPKOAWKLDC4ZEEMVNM \
  | 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: b9c8d2d2b75bd4e0594b18b99211956b0f86b68813e9042e4a896455468e2c80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1d3c3b11de3ef09bc7dd12c8d707465ec4e9e14afdbc1bc049fc88af977cc7b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T21:33:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86fe439dce9d6258762abd44d26368a3e2b5d2ed8b090b6668eb3998200ad505"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06605",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}