Pith Number

pith:DU6K3L3I

pith:1997:DU6K3L3IT67M5363OSRUSZLH7I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Self-Consistent Vacuum for Misner Space and the Chronology Protection Conjecture

III, J. Richard Gott, Li-Xin Li

arxiv:gr-qc/9711074 v1 · 1997-11-25 · gr-qc · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DU6K3L3IT67M5363OSRUSZLH7I}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:41.613194Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d3cadaf689fbeceefdb74a3496567fa2ad93605c24aa5731dadb99f8a8a6d8f

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9711074 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9711074v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9711074 · pith_short_12: DU6K3L3IT67M · pith_short_16: DU6K3L3IT67M5363 · pith_short_8: DU6K3L3I

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/DU6K3L3IT67M5363OSRUSZLH7I \
  | 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: 1d3cadaf689fbeceefdb74a3496567fa2ad93605c24aa5731dadb99f8a8a6d8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "798c99d2503c6fb57c6f6de5223b086a1aa764b9673570764694f5bcde82893f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-25T20:57:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cc30ebc684be708735b68a29837c9f74ef84640b06b01ca8ee7b649b45fed99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9711074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}