Pith Number

pith:NLOX4IFW

pith:1996:NLOX4IFWLKXEIYVFL4742BGQ2P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Causality violation and singularities

Akihiro Ishibashi, Kengo Maeda

arxiv:gr-qc/9606075 v1 · 1996-06-27 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NLOX4IFWLKXEIYVFL4742BGQ2P}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:52.628256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6add7e20b65aae4462a55f3fcd04d0d3ed06ebf478f14005d98c5bf335ff1ac6

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9606075 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9606075v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9606075 · pith_short_12: NLOX4IFWLKXE · pith_short_16: NLOX4IFWLKXEIYVF · pith_short_8: NLOX4IFW

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/NLOX4IFWLKXEIYVFL4742BGQ2P \
  | 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: 6add7e20b65aae4462a55f3fcd04d0d3ed06ebf478f14005d98c5bf335ff1ac6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4009084e8cd4b5aefa337574ddc433483a84aed1d4b838bd44c73bf177001d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-06-27T16:32:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba1987625d0598a203756c6dfdb137b0c171561719ae3a9dd37ebc67c1a66346"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9606075",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}