Pith Number

pith:F7AIEPP6

pith:2012:F7AIEPP6Y7RMLBBHKVO52TSSO7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-force as a cosmic censor

Eric Poisson, Ian Vega, Peter Zimmerman, Roland Haas

arxiv:1211.3889 v2 · 2012-11-16 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F7AIEPP6Y7RMLBBHKVO52TSSO7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:10.395289Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fc0823dfec7e2c58427555ddd4e5277d7bab04bbd252c356f98432ded1438b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3889 · arxiv_version: 1211.3889v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3889 · pith_short_12: F7AIEPP6Y7RM · pith_short_16: F7AIEPP6Y7RMLBBH · pith_short_8: F7AIEPP6

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/F7AIEPP6Y7RMLBBHKVO52TSSO7 \
  | 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: 2fc0823dfec7e2c58427555ddd4e5277d7bab04bbd252c356f98432ded1438b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27d3a0e0a868bee7ea21cd5d88a3033d3eb6bdebe19f60383a222b3718a5a5c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-16T13:47:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "690da459605db835af06ff21cb10ad409853d4b262491b8c881be5e7e9a3804a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3889",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}