Pith Number

pith:YVBTZ2BP

pith:2014:YVBTZ2BPBI24BVT4X6EJTLCLUH

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A Note On Einstein, Bergmann, and the Fifth Dimension

Edward Witten

arxiv:1401.8048 v1 · 2014-01-31 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YVBTZ2BPBI24BVT4X6EJTLCLUH}

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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	2026-05-18T03:00:36.325145Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5433ce82f0a35c0d67cbf8899ac4ba1d40af627772d6ccd42316dab540084e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.8048 · arxiv_version: 1401.8048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.8048 · pith_short_12: YVBTZ2BPBI24 · pith_short_16: YVBTZ2BPBI24BVT4 · pith_short_8: YVBTZ2BP

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/YVBTZ2BPBI24BVT4X6EJTLCLUH \
  | 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: c5433ce82f0a35c0d67cbf8899ac4ba1d40af627772d6ccd42316dab540084e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c0b1b079e1765a54dcddff3c53120c1feeb44493dcbcc778c4f9d23b937d932",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-31T02:50:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca1c4070514cd38a9191f1982169323dff4f4161f6de8548f2ffeb095457bbcf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.8048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}