Pith Number

pith:5VJLLMOV

pith:1996:5VJLLMOVXEFWP5WBYN5VMG5VPX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Testing for gravitationally preferred directions using the lunar orbit

David Vokrouhlicky, Thibault Damour

arxiv:gr-qc/9606076 v1 · 1996-06-27 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VJLLMOVXEFWP5WBYN5VMG5VPX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:47.745637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed52b5b1d5b90b67f6c1c37b561bb57ddf04c1111db831b5afcba0ea62fe3c8e

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9606076 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9606076v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9606076 · pith_short_12: 5VJLLMOVXEFW · pith_short_16: 5VJLLMOVXEFWP5WB · pith_short_8: 5VJLLMOV

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/5VJLLMOVXEFWP5WBYN5VMG5VPX \
  | 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: ed52b5b1d5b90b67f6c1c37b561bb57ddf04c1111db831b5afcba0ea62fe3c8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6638e46e1ec3f9d648fcfda6b14413a985f654ab2a6373619eb22308fda855af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-06-27T16:50:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c574de17dd48dd6ac2bb787556de9247ca72d51fcfef72eb1be5fd05bd2416c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9606076",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}