Pith Number

pith:LPSM42YW

pith:2016:LPSM42YWTKUHFSLUWDX5M7NVIK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Relationalism about mechanics based on a minimalist ontology of matter

Antonio Vassallo, Dirk-Andr\'e Deckert, Michael Esfeld

arxiv:1609.00277 v1 · 2016-09-01 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LPSM42YWTKUHFSLUWDX5M7NVIK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:25.238616Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5be4ce6b169aa872c974b0efd67db5428c1b75aff62b8766c9b8ca7bd875bebc

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.00277 · arxiv_version: 1609.00277v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.00277 · pith_short_12: LPSM42YWTKUH · pith_short_16: LPSM42YWTKUHFSLU · pith_short_8: LPSM42YW

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/LPSM42YWTKUHFSLUWDX5M7NVIK \
  | 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: 5be4ce6b169aa872c974b0efd67db5428c1b75aff62b8766c9b8ca7bd875bebc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc9264c7e57adf08a535bd3007e8dd8423361a242c44ff16f7c64feae73b083b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-01T15:26:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73cd91efdd42f76622f1c7b9d0f9b31eda6201f23d2e46e663101fea666efaff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.00277",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}