Pith Number

pith:MKLDUUQF

pith:2005:MKLDUUQF4YO2WF4JZSG52HAYN5

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Absolute Objects and Counterexamples: Jones-Geroch Dust, Torretti Constant Curvature, Tetrad-Spinor, and Scalar Density

J. Brian Pitts

arxiv:gr-qc/0506102 v4 · 2005-06-20 · gr-qc · hep-th · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MKLDUUQF4YO2WF4JZSG52HAYN5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:53.147170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62963a5205e61dab1789cc8ddd1c186f5c2f9f912e93faddb5f7b85cfeb86765

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0506102 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0506102v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0506102 · pith_short_12: MKLDUUQF4YO2 · pith_short_16: MKLDUUQF4YO2WF4J · pith_short_8: MKLDUUQF

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/MKLDUUQF4YO2WF4JZSG52HAYN5 \
  | 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: 62963a5205e61dab1789cc8ddd1c186f5c2f9f912e93faddb5f7b85cfeb86765

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63f7af283f8e807426bf481a7b0fc68ba6489deb899b2e88783763721fa0dc59",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2005-06-20T15:30:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "674dd87eff8eeade95bef0160cc959110032e48e8afff85007726cd00ca4d775"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0506102",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}