Pith Number

pith:VCYWW66Z

pith:2016:VCYWW66ZXBGNB4CNFAONYVH7XU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravity: a gauge theory perspective

Chiang-Mei Chen, James M. Nester

arxiv:1604.05547 v1 · 2016-04-19 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCYWW66ZXBGNB4CNFAONYVH7XU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:12.895771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8b16b7bd9b84cd0f04d281cdc54ffbd203e06e135c71a5f4a1ca1cf119775b9

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.05547 · arxiv_version: 1604.05547v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.05547 · pith_short_12: VCYWW66ZXBGN · pith_short_16: VCYWW66ZXBGNB4CN · pith_short_8: VCYWW66Z

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/VCYWW66ZXBGNB4CNFAONYVH7XU \
  | 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: a8b16b7bd9b84cd0f04d281cdc54ffbd203e06e135c71a5f4a1ca1cf119775b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f29de54f1b5c298798907b26eacca4d3a79d9cb87523bcecdc8385a177d46ba0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-19T12:52:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f6721526e51a96c455d0c9ff94f143d88cf900c2b5b99aee2cfcfcd5c9b39bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.05547",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}