Pith Number

pith:Z6MI5UOY

pith:2015:Z6MI5UOY552HB2JWQYP2E7VXRW

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Geometry from Information Geometry

Ariel Caticha

arxiv:1512.09076 v1 · 2015-12-30 · gr-qc

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z6MI5UOY552HB2JWQYP2E7VXRW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:34.091117Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf988ed1d8ef7470e936861fa27eb78db284b06462dcf74f8fd0d09a46bf64bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.09076 · arxiv_version: 1512.09076v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.09076 · pith_short_12: Z6MI5UOY552H · pith_short_16: Z6MI5UOY552HB2JW · pith_short_8: Z6MI5UOY

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/Z6MI5UOY552HB2JWQYP2E7VXRW \
  | 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: cf988ed1d8ef7470e936861fa27eb78db284b06462dcf74f8fd0d09a46bf64bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d2390c5678c5f9bccd999440ffae7696d4c9711948abcae2d332073804031cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-30T19:37:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "604bbaed346101770c5c8cdcaf0058cfd73a892d1c2e8b1b2a572df6a966934d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.09076",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}