Pith Number

pith:RQCLKWVC

pith:2018:RQCLKWVC776IDN4FVTCDPKUKIV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topological surgery in cosmic phenomena

Louis H. Kauffman, Sofia Lambropoulou, Stathis Antoniou

arxiv:1812.00837 v1 · 2018-12-03 · math.GT · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQCLKWVC776IDN4FVTCDPKUKIV}

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Wormhole Nucleation via Topological Surgery in Lorentzian Geometry

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:59:18.863660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c04b55aa2fffc81b785acc437aa8a454544d7880923c2662066e67d123cb5aa

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.00837 · arxiv_version: 1812.00837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.00837 · pith_short_12: RQCLKWVC776I · pith_short_16: RQCLKWVC776IDN4F · pith_short_8: RQCLKWVC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RQCLKWVC776IDN4FVTCDPKUKIV \
  | 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: 8c04b55aa2fffc81b785acc437aa8a454544d7880923c2662066e67d123cb5aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c123e297144adae1f30bd121106a2d351314bf5160b843ec7600133abdccb3b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-03T15:31:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7654166c815e6692089f4663a0c9b8982c712a7e2ab967aabf5d22db492b9f0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.00837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}