Pith Number

pith:NC5JM25X

pith:2002:NC5JM25XTPMJ3NZVUCOWAQP7LG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Singularity Structure and Stability of Plane Waves

Donald Marolf, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

arxiv:hep-th/0210309 v3 · 2002-10-31 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NC5JM25XTPMJ3NZVUCOWAQP7LG}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:36.303132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68ba966bb79bd89db735a09d6041ff59aadf4e95cfa2e17763f6c96842bee375

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0210309 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0210309v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0210309 · pith_short_12: NC5JM25XTPMJ · pith_short_16: NC5JM25XTPMJ3NZV · pith_short_8: NC5JM25X

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/NC5JM25XTPMJ3NZVUCOWAQP7LG \
  | 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: 68ba966bb79bd89db735a09d6041ff59aadf4e95cfa2e17763f6c96842bee375

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "365c2c5ede2cd3e85e9304ea7f9b8450f6759e0cdd95b602c1db407e75517fbf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-31T14:26:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "771b6375c8c0a333a411a68bd4233d89eb565bcf7fdabe02f2df1b5b6196da68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0210309",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}