Pith Number

pith:V5UWGIE2

pith:2017:V5UWGIE2GKQKJ74LMAJY3MDGJT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

General Relativity from Causality

Mark P. Hertzberg, McCullen Sandora

arxiv:1702.07720 v2 · 2017-02-24 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V5UWGIE2GKQKJ74LMAJY3MDGJT}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:33:59.359397Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af6963209a32a0a4ff8b60138db0664cff2ab766ccf7e2af0fb4fc845962620e

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07720 · arxiv_version: 1702.07720v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07720 · pith_short_12: V5UWGIE2GKQK · pith_short_16: V5UWGIE2GKQKJ74L · pith_short_8: V5UWGIE2

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/V5UWGIE2GKQKJ74LMAJY3MDGJT \
  | 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: af6963209a32a0a4ff8b60138db0664cff2ab766ccf7e2af0fb4fc845962620e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "256d96129ebed7bc5b044cde4c2feb238072d47cd413cc064cd38d3d79942e40",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-24T19:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fff511b56812bd020717db1dc12b58c827aab7bc563b82a4630e016697273df7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}