Pith Number

pith:KVJIL3CG

pith:2018:KVJIL3CG5HQOILRYDTGO6CVPSE

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Recovering initial values from light cone traces of solutions of the wave equation

Rakesh, Tao Yuan

arxiv:1801.08818 v2 · 2018-01-26 · math.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVJIL3CG5HQOILRYDTGO6CVPSE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:16.577248Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

555285ec46e9e0e42e381cccef0aaf913dacc1ab44bd9a04addf810687f7f00f

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.08818 · arxiv_version: 1801.08818v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.08818 · pith_short_12: KVJIL3CG5HQO · pith_short_16: KVJIL3CG5HQOILRY · pith_short_8: KVJIL3CG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KVJIL3CG5HQOILRYDTGO6CVPSE \
  | 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: 555285ec46e9e0e42e381cccef0aaf913dacc1ab44bd9a04addf810687f7f00f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb7374eec2e74fb9ba0be7b9faab4af1c9b414372ad50b003da7f268600809b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-26T14:10:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a99b5974635443b1edacbb682580b19f71ef74ea5bd488a7093ef180dc92a29"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.08818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}