Pith Number

pith:RWKZCYXI

pith:2016:RWKZCYXIXWS6J3Y5QMTQLQZM6S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What is General Relativity?

Alan A. Coley, David L. Wiltshire

arxiv:1612.09309 v3 · 2016-12-29 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RWKZCYXIXWS6J3Y5QMTQLQZM6S}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:46:13.310815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d959162e8bda5e4ef1d832705c32cf48599f40c5b5c2af10eba5fb85c7f6218

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.09309 · arxiv_version: 1612.09309v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.09309 · pith_short_12: RWKZCYXIXWS6 · pith_short_16: RWKZCYXIXWS6J3Y5 · pith_short_8: RWKZCYXI

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/RWKZCYXIXWS6J3Y5QMTQLQZM6S \
  | 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: 8d959162e8bda5e4ef1d832705c32cf48599f40c5b5c2af10eba5fb85c7f6218

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3359fc3d95cb5bf45df12c7d6640e165bea166017f05c5804128a661ce2874e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-29T21:17:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de12758f9a3c4ae1aea6ed21ee225c40f459c1a2a839c2c1930732befdece1cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.09309",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}