Pith Number

pith:6UZYNLF4

pith:1998:6UZYNLF46RIUFA6MAO3XHJGJCK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitational Capture and Scattering of Straight Test Strings with Large Impact Parameters

Canada), Don N. Page (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Edmonton, Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Alberta

arxiv:gr-qc/9804088 v1 · 1998-04-30 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6UZYNLF46RIUFA6MAO3XHJGJCK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:07.674832Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f53386acbcf4514283cc03b773a4c9128ec986ec88bd1201841457f9cb931c03

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9804088 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9804088v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9804088 · pith_short_12: 6UZYNLF46RIU · pith_short_16: 6UZYNLF46RIUFA6M · pith_short_8: 6UZYNLF4

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/6UZYNLF46RIUFA6MAO3XHJGJCK \
  | 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: f53386acbcf4514283cc03b773a4c9128ec986ec88bd1201841457f9cb931c03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba0efe4ad02ae6bc88a521dc6e5b25d8278a4dd0302a7e629b1fd3645b6f36e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-30T23:36:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7cdd3eb11a6eaa650652a08855f83a34c2c63c0ea24c5476535367128f45d447"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9804088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}