Pith Number

pith:D5AE3ASA

pith:2017:D5AE3ASAD6VFOF2O2IFTDIJFEW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitational wave echoes through new windows

Bob Holdom, Jing Ren, Randy S. Conklin

arxiv:1712.06517 v4 · 2017-12-18 · gr-qc · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D5AE3ASAD6VFOF2O2IFTDIJFEW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:32.882121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f404d82401faa57174ed20b31a12525892885dabf9c8ad0af8d97a4eba20287

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06517 · arxiv_version: 1712.06517v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06517 · pith_short_12: D5AE3ASAD6VF · pith_short_16: D5AE3ASAD6VFOF2O · pith_short_8: D5AE3ASA

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/D5AE3ASAD6VFOF2O2IFTDIJFEW \
  | 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: 1f404d82401faa57174ed20b31a12525892885dabf9c8ad0af8d97a4eba20287

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab5df5a006529b01fe58adf18451702cf968774d6dd1525dc9730d81dc9fc171",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T16:52:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bcafefb738fdddc856af75243de2268fc67bcca6d1796ec5c4a7b3a58ff2d7ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06517",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}