Pith Number

pith:JWLTCCO5

pith:2008:JWLTCCO535H3V34YCMQRCZO72Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Post-Newtonian Approximation in Maxwell-Like Form

David A. Nichols, Jeffrey D. Kaplan, Kip S. Thorne

arxiv:0808.2510 v4 · 2008-08-19 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWLTCCO535H3V34YCMQRCZO72Q}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:44.072730Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d973109dddf4fbaef9813211165dfd421c3491696b48989996d61987629355f

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.2510 · arxiv_version: 0808.2510v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.2510 · pith_short_12: JWLTCCO535H3 · pith_short_16: JWLTCCO535H3V34Y · pith_short_8: JWLTCCO5

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/JWLTCCO535H3V34YCMQRCZO72Q \
  | 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: 4d973109dddf4fbaef9813211165dfd421c3491696b48989996d61987629355f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfe34b559a1236139069b7698e20decf446dddf73f87acff616fbcd52e436e90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-19T00:21:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d5eff2998f7d98245d523e4eb994aff464814bc076109cdfcde24163f6e4299"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.2510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}