Pith Number

pith:6Z6AQVZU

pith:1999:6Z6AQVZUXJ5AW63HWPADVYVCKN

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Conceptual Foundations of Special and General Relativity

Charles Francis

arxiv:physics/9909048 v2 · 1999-09-23 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6Z6AQVZUXJ5AW63HWPADVYVCKN}

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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	2026-07-04T14:45:03.790038Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f67c085734ba7a0b7b67b3c03ae2a25373ba2ded4ba1b01e302ef99bd1461ad7

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9909048 · arxiv_version: physics/9909048v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9909048 · pith_short_12: 6Z6AQVZUXJ5A · pith_short_16: 6Z6AQVZUXJ5AW63H · pith_short_8: 6Z6AQVZU

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/6Z6AQVZUXJ5AW63HWPADVYVCKN \
  | 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: f67c085734ba7a0b7b67b3c03ae2a25373ba2ded4ba1b01e302ef99bd1461ad7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95da6a7b22cb9f7ca017d2d7fba7000d365a67a7bb0465229e6788c2b2bd3078",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-23T14:24:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9bc194c8822a4f83cdab148eb0b7dc5e68091e36de2b1db6624f74adb7300029"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9909048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}