Pith Number

pith:MEW3QTBQ

pith:1995:MEW3QTBQSEMJ4354NI2IIOBRBJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Massive scalar field in multiply connected flat spacetimes

Tsunefumi Tanaka, William A. Hiscock (Montana State University)

arxiv:gr-qc/9504021 v1 · 1995-04-14 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEW3QTBQSEMJ4354NI2IIOBRBJ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:38:06.869305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

612db84c3091189e6fbc6a348438310a52c4d02a631c52964c9cb800be2c32aa

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9504021 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9504021v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9504021 · pith_short_12: MEW3QTBQSEMJ · pith_short_16: MEW3QTBQSEMJ4354 · pith_short_8: MEW3QTBQ

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/MEW3QTBQSEMJ4354NI2IIOBRBJ \
  | 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: 612db84c3091189e6fbc6a348438310a52c4d02a631c52964c9cb800be2c32aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5acb4ddeb3ef12ae463ab42ba96fe1655375cfd82f855e0104e446a4ba6666d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1995-04-14T17:17:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85168c1d05e2b3ca030954542e2a0c3ee6b851d68e16e5814dd49f03563245fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9504021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}