Pith Number

pith:OVGJ2CDJ

pith:2016:OVGJ2CDJIS63JUYP2WKJC4KCOY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Matters of Gravity, The Newsletter of the Division of Gravitational Physics of the American Physical Society, Volume 48, December 2016

David Garfinkle

arxiv:1612.04184 v1 · 2016-12-10 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OVGJ2CDJIS63JUYP2WKJC4KCOY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:05.228118Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

754c9d086944bdb4d30fd594917142762fc15cf910c645bea9526b6948071f02

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.04184 · arxiv_version: 1612.04184v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.04184 · pith_short_12: OVGJ2CDJIS63 · pith_short_16: OVGJ2CDJIS63JUYP · pith_short_8: OVGJ2CDJ

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/OVGJ2CDJIS63JUYP2WKJC4KCOY \
  | 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: 754c9d086944bdb4d30fd594917142762fc15cf910c645bea9526b6948071f02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "562118b99f2853523386ffd0ebbe0108678dd31cea5c078fec8b7dea24427acf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-10T19:25:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0231e6c055706f366038c4325321908ba14a361a92e2af94ce818d3479ff3429"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.04184",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}