Pith Number

pith:L2EA53M2

pith:2026:L2EA53M2UHBYVNE3LING2SDQJI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The magic of the gravitational vacuum

Samir D. Mathur

arxiv:2606.20334 v1 · 2026-06-18 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L2EA53M2UHBYVNE3LING2SDQJI}

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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	2026-06-19T16:13:09.190313Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e880eed9aa1c38ab49b5a1a6d48704a24d97b5e19be441612fb5c10f1b269b6

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20334 · arxiv_version: 2606.20334v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20334 · pith_short_12: L2EA53M2UHBY · pith_short_16: L2EA53M2UHBYVNE3 · pith_short_8: L2EA53M2

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/L2EA53M2UHBYVNE3LING2SDQJI \
  | 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: 5e880eed9aa1c38ab49b5a1a6d48704a24d97b5e19be441612fb5c10f1b269b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96063c7ae44456f526dd4c6549dbd122604f697f4031ae1f4230819f6bf5f57c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-18T15:05:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51658574559701fbc1bb14d9871b48b9101460f0dc9ca640e790a6a993622711"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20334",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}