Pith Number

pith:H3VPSLL5

pith:2018:H3VPSLL5XHWEJK436V2KBLIFNC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time Coordinates and Clocks: Einstein's Struggle

Dennis Dieks

arxiv:1801.09297 v1 · 2018-01-28 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H3VPSLL5XHWEJK436V2KBLIFNC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:57.909420Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3eeaf92d7db9ec44ab9bf574a0ad0568977a84d718920a7dff15336860a4a895

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.09297 · arxiv_version: 1801.09297v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.09297 · pith_short_12: H3VPSLL5XHWE · pith_short_16: H3VPSLL5XHWEJK43 · pith_short_8: H3VPSLL5

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/H3VPSLL5XHWEJK436V2KBLIFNC \
  | 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: 3eeaf92d7db9ec44ab9bf574a0ad0568977a84d718920a7dff15336860a4a895

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bee255214f80c5eb3baed023ac38a7ad9644424270dd8c723dcf2831b531ec8c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-28T21:47:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "953ab3c935e8414f6a8f3a800095ce86496ae6cef814b92c348b85ad515f7392"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.09297",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}