Pith Number

pith:ED6ZHIED

pith:2010:ED6ZHIEDY64IAPEKZMHVLUF4AP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Derivation of Special Relativity from Causal Sets

Kevin H. Knuth, Newshaw Bahrenyi

arxiv:1005.4172 v2 · 2010-05-23 · math-ph · gr-qc · hep-th · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ED6ZHIEDY64IAPEKZMHVLUF4AP}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:41:43.854936Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20fd93a083c7b8803c8acb0f55d0bc03f7eac54357e448dfde123ab22ed78e80

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.4172 · arxiv_version: 1005.4172v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.4172 · pith_short_12: ED6ZHIEDY64I · pith_short_16: ED6ZHIEDY64IAPEK · pith_short_8: ED6ZHIED

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/ED6ZHIEDY64IAPEKZMHVLUF4AP \
  | 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: 20fd93a083c7b8803c8acb0f55d0bc03f7eac54357e448dfde123ab22ed78e80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e423dd3dbec165b5175a6019d4f2917314e49e211c9e2f54d9491649d036ece",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-23T06:05:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec9c8a562cfc93f575c033b6dfddb4285717dec23319552e30653ccd9da51fad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.4172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}