Pith Number

pith:B34YQBSJ

pith:2017:B34YQBSJ6F5Q6NGLFSOFMW4WRB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Light-Cones, Almost Light-Cones and Almost-Complex Light-Cones

Ezra T. Newman

arxiv:1704.04971 v1 · 2017-04-17 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B34YQBSJ6F5Q6NGLFSOFMW4WRB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:35.784991Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ef9880649f17b0f34cb2c9c565b96884c0bee3888b59e581398f4c36b6e4a87

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04971 · arxiv_version: 1704.04971v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04971 · pith_short_12: B34YQBSJ6F5Q · pith_short_16: B34YQBSJ6F5Q6NGL · pith_short_8: B34YQBSJ

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/B34YQBSJ6F5Q6NGLFSOFMW4WRB \
  | 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: 0ef9880649f17b0f34cb2c9c565b96884c0bee3888b59e581398f4c36b6e4a87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c086e6c3931fe0f2e46bb7d66dbb737a89840281e915df13fa33de2bc38e4ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-17T14:16:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "56afc8ee310562d0fd2e0f6e40db5d673d73ecb81fae920dbc636cbcd0f80933"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}