Pith Number

pith:P72YRIGE

pith:2015:P72YRIGEA66RBAEQHLZNEWKX3Z

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Space-time Philosophy Reconstructed via Massive Nordstr\"om Scalar Gravities? Laws vs. Geometry, Conventionality, and Underdetermination

J. Brian Pitts

arxiv:1509.03303 v1 · 2015-09-09 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P72YRIGEA66RBAEQHLZNEWKX3Z}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:54.251292Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ff588a0c407bd1080903af2d25957de5a8c6f1211bc3ccd236cd4a7770e8394

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.03303 · arxiv_version: 1509.03303v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.03303 · pith_short_12: P72YRIGEA66R · pith_short_16: P72YRIGEA66RBAEQ · pith_short_8: P72YRIGE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P72YRIGEA66RBAEQHLZNEWKX3Z \
  | 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: 7ff588a0c407bd1080903af2d25957de5a8c6f1211bc3ccd236cd4a7770e8394

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b470ea83a1825f8824aaef8bc75ca71a0ec3dcae69249c819abf650653d298f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-09T11:46:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e3e4c40180c29cb0343bbb11832f60e2d6f5041ed0c8544b10736b3ae61ece3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.03303",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}