Pith Number

pith:RTNCV3J3

pith:2003:RTNCV3J3VGDTOVNBBTCFPVJA4O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Plane waves and spacelike infinity

Donald Marolf, Simon F. Ross

arxiv:hep-th/0303044 v2 · 2003-03-06 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RTNCV3J3VGDTOVNBBTCFPVJA4O}

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:53.045739Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cda2aed3ba9873755a10cc457d520e38e21377f33b4a185bacd0e1f32bad9ac

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0303044 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0303044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0303044 · pith_short_12: RTNCV3J3VGDT · pith_short_16: RTNCV3J3VGDTOVNB · pith_short_8: RTNCV3J3

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/RTNCV3J3VGDTOVNBBTCFPVJA4O \
  | 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: 8cda2aed3ba9873755a10cc457d520e38e21377f33b4a185bacd0e1f32bad9ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71a2a4529dfbb82cca47a4c51eff39ce2123b56c66526e9660c6036a8cef101a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-06T16:29:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "157da4d0deaa5e49405cc7d9b372daef8f2b5fe33a0bf1d5b3ef0f6ba98cfcd3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0303044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}