Pith Number

pith:MBODGRR5

pith:2014:MBODGRR5QB2Y7VHJC6R2WXF3O4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Resolving a gravitational wave memory paradox

David Garfinkle, Istvan Racz

arxiv:1406.5559 v1 · 2014-06-20 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBODGRR5QB2Y7VHJC6R2WXF3O4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:56.975502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

605c33463d80758fd4e917a3ab5cbb77037cbf117c81127e93aedefb9fa671cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.5559 · arxiv_version: 1406.5559v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.5559 · pith_short_12: MBODGRR5QB2Y · pith_short_16: MBODGRR5QB2Y7VHJ · pith_short_8: MBODGRR5

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/MBODGRR5QB2Y7VHJC6R2WXF3O4 \
  | 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: 605c33463d80758fd4e917a3ab5cbb77037cbf117c81127e93aedefb9fa671cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58458e28565e57a0f669a917d2b712220c54bc4ec3dd6c96da16af5e31934434",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-20T23:47:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0cfe5445db8853c4225509adfeeabc965c92162b5ab424ea0562e2530e6111b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.5559",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}