Pith Number

pith:5VKR7IB5

pith:1996:5VKR7IB5LOOGNLLRAW6BYQS53P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravity and Signature Change

Charles Hellaby, Corinne Manogue, George Ellis, Tevian Dray

arxiv:gr-qc/9610063 v1 · 1996-10-26 · gr-qc

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VKR7IB5LOOGNLLRAW6BYQS53P}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:39:19.244264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed551fa03d5b9c66ad7105bc1c425ddbf758f4fcd763d6fe46b601f52e50ae24

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9610063 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9610063v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9610063 · pith_short_12: 5VKR7IB5LOOG · pith_short_16: 5VKR7IB5LOOGNLLR · pith_short_8: 5VKR7IB5

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/5VKR7IB5LOOGNLLRAW6BYQS53P \
  | 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: ed551fa03d5b9c66ad7105bc1c425ddbf758f4fcd763d6fe46b601f52e50ae24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee5d892f08e47257686592a7de102dccb2990e8c5cb2958f3d3df2645f890430",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-26T01:09:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06d9a3fec7e384a7b2ccfb42cf7ee5fc1f846e4eef958ca53b20d6482b878ddf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9610063",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}