Pith Number

pith:BNACTYH2

pith:2014:BNACTYH2VTV5IPSCQTJTSMIGTL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Regarding the "Hole Argument"

James Owen Weatherall

arxiv:1412.0303 v2 · 2014-11-30 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNACTYH2VTV5IPSCQTJTSMIGTL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:34.158477Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b4029e0faacebd43e4284d33931069ad9eab389ad14e23d80fe22a797588fc0

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.0303 · arxiv_version: 1412.0303v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.0303 · pith_short_12: BNACTYH2VTV5 · pith_short_16: BNACTYH2VTV5IPSC · pith_short_8: BNACTYH2

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/BNACTYH2VTV5IPSCQTJTSMIGTL \
  | 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: 0b4029e0faacebd43e4284d33931069ad9eab389ad14e23d80fe22a797588fc0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4fbdf6db6c666879e90d2a4a8a19719c6d820c57a251cc7858353cbd50f14277",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-30T23:22:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fda068e93a6228b2ee3b63808900e251f10c11ba2a1fb9c625a3daec89971515"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.0303",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}