Pith Number

pith:LOVBE3GZ

pith:2012:LOVBE3GZACU2D2J7YIWM6UEBMJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mach's Principle selects 4 space-time dimensions

Boris L. Altshuler

arxiv:1205.0279 v1 · 2012-04-30 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LOVBE3GZACU2D2J7YIWM6UEBMJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:22:41.596749Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5baa126cd900a9a1e93fc22ccf508162570a8d985cf28830adc4658b44c62c00

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0279 · arxiv_version: 1205.0279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0279 · pith_short_12: LOVBE3GZACU2 · pith_short_16: LOVBE3GZACU2D2J7 · pith_short_8: LOVBE3GZ

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/LOVBE3GZACU2D2J7YIWM6UEBMJ \
  | 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: 5baa126cd900a9a1e93fc22ccf508162570a8d985cf28830adc4658b44c62c00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a57c1eda15607218eef0ec5c7ac9fb5cf7be5c21ed08390d6cc8cd197c60eb55",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-30T15:00:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9de9c42ff28d6e0f6c41bb3c70d82077a0cd7bd721db0331000f0a7f197e91a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}