Pith Number

pith:KLM42RXN

pith:1994:KLM42RXNFCTL3WB7IGDJVR5F2T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Collapse of Kaluza-Klein Bubbles

Steven Corley, Ted Jacobson

arxiv:gr-qc/9403017 v1 · 1994-03-09 · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KLM42RXNFCTL3WB7IGDJVR5F2T}

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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	2026-07-04T17:18:54.470010Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52d9cd46ed28a6bdd83f41869ac7a5d4f278c1f0487bb8bc0b58e4b9f7647490

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9403017 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9403017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9403017 · pith_short_12: KLM42RXNFCTL · pith_short_16: KLM42RXNFCTL3WB7 · pith_short_8: KLM42RXN

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/KLM42RXNFCTL3WB7IGDJVR5F2T \
  | 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: 52d9cd46ed28a6bdd83f41869ac7a5d4f278c1f0487bb8bc0b58e4b9f7647490

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bdbe5d7b1f4703cf50ac654dee3187b1a1775473627c8b8a8cb59dd04a6c1ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1994-03-09T18:57:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c86fe38581dc29f968006ba650c34fe495907b00bbe286c9a91720edc710d501"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9403017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}