Pith Number

pith:MXAK5IZ6

pith:2012:MXAK5IZ6GI4Q5HAMDKXN7PMULN

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Inertial motion, explanation, and the foundations of classical spacetime theories

James Owen Weatherall

arxiv:1206.2980 v1 · 2012-06-14 · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MXAK5IZ6GI4Q5HAMDKXN7PMULN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:53:33.214434Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65c0aea33e32390e9c0c1aaedfbd945b5ef2a6aca37cb9e639edcc0014d7a166

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.2980 · arxiv_version: 1206.2980v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.2980 · pith_short_12: MXAK5IZ6GI4Q · pith_short_16: MXAK5IZ6GI4Q5HAM · pith_short_8: MXAK5IZ6

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/MXAK5IZ6GI4Q5HAMDKXN7PMULN \
  | 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: 65c0aea33e32390e9c0c1aaedfbd945b5ef2a6aca37cb9e639edcc0014d7a166

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70bca188c524939de5e2241f559866a779b0db3d42166cc79e94f0ecfaf50015",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-14T01:10:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8aabd8609a8c8ef98c078519c5b8fa46d0cd0711e1e763ac71bae28c2921f38"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.2980",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}