Pith Number

pith:7LHVSYP6

pith:2010:7LHVSYP62N2NKG74IFII27SAVH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The dangers of extremes

Donald Marolf

arxiv:1005.2999 v1 · 2010-05-17 · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7LHVSYP62N2NKG74IFII27SAVH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:56.786785Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

facf5961fed374d51bfc41508d7e40a9cdd2b64c15a829e6b9059bdafee0bdf5

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.2999 · arxiv_version: 1005.2999v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.2999 · pith_short_12: 7LHVSYP62N2N · pith_short_16: 7LHVSYP62N2NKG74 · pith_short_8: 7LHVSYP6

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/7LHVSYP62N2NKG74IFII27SAVH \
  | 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: facf5961fed374d51bfc41508d7e40a9cdd2b64c15a829e6b9059bdafee0bdf5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ede1ae6accc438b8c80a65ed22a6eb261a98c2a5c181bd6b4b35ce66968f781",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-17T19:12:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f4d9f069632e2a7e0b35fa5ec6570f7c4b7725b978d2ae2357d6bb5bb4cf928"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.2999",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}