Pith Number

pith:MY3M2P3D

pith:1996:MY3M2P3DF6EPSG5U7IOKJY2DDQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Cosmic Censor Forbids Naked Topology

E. Woolgar, G. J. Galloway

arxiv:gr-qc/9609007 v2 · 1996-09-01 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MY3M2P3DF6EPSG5U7IOKJY2DDQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:39.052371Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6636cd3f632f88f91bb4fa1ca4e3431c2078264f7e9f0475d6eb537d0ada9bf9

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9609007 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9609007v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9609007 · pith_short_12: MY3M2P3DF6EP · pith_short_16: MY3M2P3DF6EPSG5U · pith_short_8: MY3M2P3D

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/MY3M2P3DF6EPSG5U7IOKJY2DDQ \
  | 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: 6636cd3f632f88f91bb4fa1ca4e3431c2078264f7e9f0475d6eb537d0ada9bf9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1030e1172fc94f3809efe3b53be63ecf406c4ab22c390aacdcff12eefd48e941",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-01T19:59:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0655b456169e14ed4e3aa51433d79c56ed7bfdaccd811dd9a2e574f7752f28fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9609007",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}