Pith Number

pith:7W4USUMD

pith:2006:7W4USUMDDY3AZU5TBIKL527KVC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Minimal Distortion Shift Gauge

James W. York, jr, Robert T. Jantzen

arxiv:gr-qc/0603069 v4 · 2006-03-16 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7W4USUMDDY3AZU5TBIKL527KVC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:41.754151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fdb94951831e360cd3b30a14beebeaa8a709460f8dbc2af95db88a3f727a9de7

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0603069 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0603069v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0603069 · pith_short_12: 7W4USUMDDY3A · pith_short_16: 7W4USUMDDY3AZU5T · pith_short_8: 7W4USUMD

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/7W4USUMDDY3AZU5TBIKL527KVC \
  | 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: fdb94951831e360cd3b30a14beebeaa8a709460f8dbc2af95db88a3f727a9de7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17a122f1a2846f0d6f85ec33f18d6a4b26ab9b17a603612794338d18b112cb6f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2006-03-16T17:30:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "92ed7d583b1837d9c22c2830288aa4c35079199af82b08900fcc7d19650d31bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0603069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}