Pith Number

pith:RWDN6F74

pith:1999:RWDN6F74C4AP6GHSWYDUXLKDUZ

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A Pre-Geometric Model Exhibiting Physical Law

Charles Francis

arxiv:physics/9909051 v1 · 1999-09-24 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RWDN6F74C4AP6GHSWYDUXLKDUZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:45:03.834876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d86df17fc1700ff18f2b6074bad43a647f30321b69a2227856bec2ea9dee588

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9909051 · arxiv_version: physics/9909051v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9909051 · pith_short_12: RWDN6F74C4AP · pith_short_16: RWDN6F74C4AP6GHS · pith_short_8: RWDN6F74

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RWDN6F74C4AP6GHSWYDUXLKDUZ \
  | 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: 8d86df17fc1700ff18f2b6074bad43a647f30321b69a2227856bec2ea9dee588

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "670c05b5c36f9b44831bd98a23880a596158a19f69981c33e2345b2e52b48463",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-24T13:55:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e34fe4d1368dc2a5ed36fb97a9160b623a5821258aa329abecbecede596cce1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9909051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}