Pith Number

pith:5SMQV7ML

pith:2002:5SMQV7MLQMQJR3RYX3Z4LINK3B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Three Dimensional Distorted Black Holes

Edward Seidel, Karen Camarda, Ryoji Takahashi, Steven Brandt

arxiv:gr-qc/0206070 v2 · 2002-06-24 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5SMQV7MLQMQJR3RYX3Z4LINK3B}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:16.674580Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec990afd8b832098ee38bef3c5a1aad8577127c5792f37c231ddfd5b6ac88dd1

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0206070 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0206070v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0206070 · pith_short_12: 5SMQV7MLQMQJ · pith_short_16: 5SMQV7MLQMQJR3RY · pith_short_8: 5SMQV7ML

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/5SMQV7MLQMQJR3RYX3Z4LINK3B \
  | 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: ec990afd8b832098ee38bef3c5a1aad8577127c5792f37c231ddfd5b6ac88dd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b66d2c041ec81ad5552b5d8ae85a67a27cd729ea3eaddfa565020815f5f28443",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2002-06-24T09:21:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a60c3bf9cceb988c2b917cd384de3a5ef2eaf19f258d3a6883a07bf090421826"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0206070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}