Pith Number

pith:ODGUAEVZ

pith:2015:ODGUAEVZ5EYCWN3MJPYWNWTYAM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stationary Point of the Hilbert Action Principle

James W. York

arxiv:1512.06756 v1 · 2015-12-18 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ODGUAEVZ5EYCWN3MJPYWNWTYAM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:23:59.728857Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70cd4012b9e9302b376c4bf166da78031f8b19f81e0738d02929d92eb87b2b7b

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.06756 · arxiv_version: 1512.06756v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.06756 · pith_short_12: ODGUAEVZ5EYC · pith_short_16: ODGUAEVZ5EYCWN3M · pith_short_8: ODGUAEVZ

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/ODGUAEVZ5EYCWN3MJPYWNWTYAM \
  | 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: 70cd4012b9e9302b376c4bf166da78031f8b19f81e0738d02929d92eb87b2b7b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e582f27b3d91f3bc566bdf698346679b884044236eb8afa70340e05b5571d9b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-18T00:18:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6161c66fece127764715eb431f7517351db499c9c781f2c2cbea2f58b41b4d8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.06756",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}