Pith Number

pith:7KT5HHHQ

pith:1999:7KT5HHHQKZSDGA4XBK764JTDCG

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The origin of the spacetime metric: Bell's `Lorentzian pedagogy' and its significance in general relativity

Harvey R. Brown (Oxford), Oliver Pooley (Oxford)

arxiv:gr-qc/9908048 v2 · 1999-08-17 · gr-qc

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On Bell's dynamical route to special relativity

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:26:23.605747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

faa7d39cf056643303970abfee266311a0e58a00582da64d5e3108b23d824297

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9908048 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9908048v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9908048 · pith_short_12: 7KT5HHHQKZSD · pith_short_16: 7KT5HHHQKZSDGA4X · pith_short_8: 7KT5HHHQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7KT5HHHQKZSDGA4XBK764JTDCG \
  | 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: faa7d39cf056643303970abfee266311a0e58a00582da64d5e3108b23d824297

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5fde84d63091c740c63ebc95666a0ee1020474f4ad316c68214703d677cd74c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1999-08-17T14:10:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c7b7251a97707469572d394cecac3e46ed196505b83de9f0ed216ed5173e370"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9908048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}