Pith Number

pith:H7GZ2SBZ

pith:2015:H7GZ2SBZ343RHVK7NSIWOA3M3L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a violation of cosmic censorship

Benjamin E. Niehoff, Benson Way, Jorge E. Santos

arxiv:1510.00709 v1 · 2015-10-02 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H7GZ2SBZ343RHVK7NSIWOA3M3L}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:04:22.424795Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3fcd9d4839df3713d55f6c9167036cdae2d89b9370e2fbb3bfd50a3878963d15

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.00709 · arxiv_version: 1510.00709v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.00709 · pith_short_12: H7GZ2SBZ343R · pith_short_16: H7GZ2SBZ343RHVK7 · pith_short_8: H7GZ2SBZ

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/H7GZ2SBZ343RHVK7NSIWOA3M3L \
  | 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: 3fcd9d4839df3713d55f6c9167036cdae2d89b9370e2fbb3bfd50a3878963d15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d34dd09574297340131371e0c469fe7a874d19d1d31a6078be4ead0ac5a76db2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-02T20:04:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8df44b38d553e94678c277e31c656e2a155430d96113a5e51150c8589051f9a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.00709",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}