Pith Number

pith:BEYYYPJ5

pith:2012:BEYYYPJ5VVHQVLARQE5NNKJOB4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Soliton and a Black Hole are in Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Who wins?

Anson W.C. Wong, Robert B. Mann

arxiv:1209.2842 v1 · 2012-09-13 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BEYYYPJ5VVHQVLARQE5NNKJOB4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:34.249355Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09318c3d3dad4f0aac11813ad6a92e0f2a55fc945de37ef5fdee0908a668b290

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.2842 · arxiv_version: 1209.2842v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.2842 · pith_short_12: BEYYYPJ5VVHQ · pith_short_16: BEYYYPJ5VVHQVLAR · pith_short_8: BEYYYPJ5

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/BEYYYPJ5VVHQVLARQE5NNKJOB4 \
  | 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: 09318c3d3dad4f0aac11813ad6a92e0f2a55fc945de37ef5fdee0908a668b290

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "771ae78e8edbd86587fd33aef0216865df37272dbc84ce8d89ba676650bfc782",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-13T10:10:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4392dc3c1ab9b20538bd2b72123d02e583e3804159293b5f937a0a6e4543e136"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.2842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}