Pith Number

pith:IMX2CD6H

pith:1998:IMX2CD6HEK727GK37MDCUAZTX4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-Referential Noise and the Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Space

Christopher M. Klinger (Department of Physics, Flinders University), Reginald T. Cahill

arxiv:gr-qc/9812083 v2 · 1998-12-24 · gr-qc · adap-org · nlin.AO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMX2CD6HEK727GK37MDCUAZTX4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:18.200798Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

432fa10fc722bfaf995bfb062a0333bf06355a0412482c6a79f8865158a2adad

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9812083 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9812083v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9812083 · pith_short_12: IMX2CD6HEK72 · pith_short_16: IMX2CD6HEK727GK3 · pith_short_8: IMX2CD6H

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/IMX2CD6HEK727GK37MDCUAZTX4 \
  | 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: 432fa10fc722bfaf995bfb062a0333bf06355a0412482c6a79f8865158a2adad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb0112f7e135d244d1c72b11d85c360ffd850a514e24813b883b3fb8cfa22687",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "adap-org",
      "nlin.AO"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-24T01:20:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87fb3b80099375d5bb096514992341c2c6472d05c20d3dc2017370103014ff80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9812083",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}