Pith Number

pith:ZYIWPFSY

pith:2014:ZYIWPFSYPTRNQRY65J64D7ODIN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Einstein's steady-state theory: an abandoned model of the cosmos

Brendan McCann, Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, Simon Mitton, Werner Nahm

arxiv:1402.0132 v3 · 2014-02-01 · physics.hist-ph · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYIWPFSYPTRNQRY65J64D7ODIN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:55:53.536012Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce116796587ce2d8471eea7dc1fdc343411569d2c087929a569c224f47422c47

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.0132 · arxiv_version: 1402.0132v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.0132 · pith_short_12: ZYIWPFSYPTRN · pith_short_16: ZYIWPFSYPTRNQRY6 · pith_short_8: ZYIWPFSY

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/ZYIWPFSYPTRNQRY65J64D7ODIN \
  | 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: ce116796587ce2d8471eea7dc1fdc343411569d2c087929a569c224f47422c47

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9484c940376c47d537c608e968101777452bd50424c210b8f06b8d0794da6d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-01T22:34:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e489bb4ca1b110c9e5956595a6e4564b93dc1999d2f4505eb10e52207c6fcc84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.0132",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}