Pith Number

pith:ZS4YDSBW

pith:2008:ZS4YDSBWKNO3O5AFXRFGNHYMY3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Inference to Physics

Ariel Caticha

arxiv:0808.1260 v1 · 2008-08-08 · physics.class-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · physics.data-an · physics.gen-ph · quant-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZS4YDSBWKNO3O5AFXRFGNHYMY3}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T01:05:13.511930Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccb981c836535db77405bc4a669f0cc6f614339abbe8813e2f831f2f5a47bf1a

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.1260 · arxiv_version: 0808.1260v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.1260 · pith_short_12: ZS4YDSBWKNO3 · pith_short_16: ZS4YDSBWKNO3O5AF · pith_short_8: ZS4YDSBW

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/ZS4YDSBWKNO3O5AFXRFGNHYMY3 \
  | 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: ccb981c836535db77405bc4a669f0cc6f614339abbe8813e2f831f2f5a47bf1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "505be4b04fa8d0791e555e1128a6c86c3804fdd0cbf7ba95fed57c71fd09cec7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.gen-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-08T18:23:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc49bbcf8bed955fc7a7a221e7e4ffad92265212f1d593213a5c10b45488d84b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.1260",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}