Pith Number

pith:KNDDU54N

pith:1996:KNDDU54NEQDNPEBLVMAMXQKVQA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitational Geons Revisited

Dieter R. Brill, Paul R. Anderson

arxiv:gr-qc/9610074 v2 · 1996-10-31 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KNDDU54NEQDNPEBLVMAMXQKVQA}

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:47.667164Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53463a778d2406d7902bab00cbc155802951831873e3d91a433f1f46fa0c91ef

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9610074 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9610074v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9610074 · pith_short_12: KNDDU54NEQDN · pith_short_16: KNDDU54NEQDNPEBL · pith_short_8: KNDDU54N

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/KNDDU54NEQDNPEBLVMAMXQKVQA \
  | 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: 53463a778d2406d7902bab00cbc155802951831873e3d91a433f1f46fa0c91ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b2bbb5a6ddcacb7e39531e9f5e8b1afef943c8abaa76e58583238a79f91586c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-31T22:41:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15a6a770ed0f79b78f9041d948a5a3cb9f39efb1559628e60977cfe77880e44f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9610074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}