Pith Number

pith:OUH4G3JK

pith:2014:OUH4G3JK2332MYNRPQRHLXH5AF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Examination of a simple example of gravitational wave memory

Alexander Tolish, David Garfinkle, Lydia Bieri, Robert M. Wald

arxiv:1405.6396 v1 · 2014-05-25 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OUH4G3JK2332MYNRPQRHLXH5AF}

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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	2026-05-18T02:43:35.415972Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

750fc36d2ad6f7a661b17c2275dcfd015f26b91e039c080c3040e0ec8910dfc0

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.6396 · arxiv_version: 1405.6396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.6396 · pith_short_12: OUH4G3JK2332 · pith_short_16: OUH4G3JK2332MYNR · pith_short_8: OUH4G3JK

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/OUH4G3JK2332MYNRPQRHLXH5AF \
  | 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: 750fc36d2ad6f7a661b17c2275dcfd015f26b91e039c080c3040e0ec8910dfc0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b31308155f1714dd893fa113e15037c8aec41d2b4bd38de7ccd5decb2b1bc6d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-25T15:31:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d2ff68b64ca44d90a1bfbcc65d7a6d71e3839585314a1f6239c3947752c9823"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.6396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}