Pith Number

pith:XU2JRSLS

pith:2017:XU2JRSLSA5GQ53FNPTBCM3NXNT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Replication Ethics

Adrian Kent

arxiv:1712.03079 v3 · 2017-12-04 · cs.CY · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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

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	2026-05-17T23:52:24.591136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd3498c972074d0eecad7cc2266db76cee88b72a9b2557b1bb44ad0941cc525c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03079 · arxiv_version: 1712.03079v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03079 · pith_short_12: XU2JRSLSA5GQ · pith_short_16: XU2JRSLSA5GQ53FN · pith_short_8: XU2JRSLS

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/XU2JRSLSA5GQ53FNPTBCM3NXNT \
  | 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: bd3498c972074d0eecad7cc2266db76cee88b72a9b2557b1bb44ad0941cc525c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b58c69ae37e8c208df0f82ff6af063b323a3d45b0aba4011e20d18d2c0547198",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-04T11:45:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "573854f3d1a54e36380f17d5f0630947c77b3c347c661b53042a1406df54bbcb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}