Pith Number

pith:3D6NJBON

pith:1998:3D6NJBONNCGF67RANJA6RZRGXD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the possibility of a complex 4-dimensional space-time manifold

Lu Lin

arxiv:physics/9804016 v1 · 1998-04-15 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3D6NJBONNCGF67RANJA6RZRGXD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:44:54.651169Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8fcd485cd688c5f7e206a41e8e626b8da120d6ab6f8f766453a0f7531d7aec3

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9804016 · arxiv_version: physics/9804016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9804016 · pith_short_12: 3D6NJBONNCGF · pith_short_16: 3D6NJBONNCGF67RA · pith_short_8: 3D6NJBON

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3D6NJBONNCGF67RANJA6RZRGXD \
  | 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: d8fcd485cd688c5f7e206a41e8e626b8da120d6ab6f8f766453a0f7531d7aec3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3dc192329c10a5f45eb47ab109e2f94493c4333b75645282863a71f1276a4a09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-15T09:07:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77c8c51daf3e1da559ecdd8fe1aec83b17490cca8f04e15bd7fcab7a33776670"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9804016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}