Pith Number

pith:TCWTAHWZ

pith:2012:TCWTAHWZLMQJ7TS5LBDMOLYJ6G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mechanics, cosmology and Mach's principle

Hanno Essen

arxiv:1208.3096 v2 · 2012-08-15 · physics.class-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TCWTAHWZLMQJ7TS5LBDMOLYJ6G}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:55:15.690449Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

98ad301ed95b209fce5d5846c72f09f19bde523c16b776b6a8b813d829f15f42

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.3096 · arxiv_version: 1208.3096v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.3096 · pith_short_12: TCWTAHWZLMQJ · pith_short_16: TCWTAHWZLMQJ7TS5 · pith_short_8: TCWTAHWZ

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/TCWTAHWZLMQJ7TS5LBDMOLYJ6G \
  | 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: 98ad301ed95b209fce5d5846c72f09f19bde523c16b776b6a8b813d829f15f42

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "804a29adbf8a62b0f9acfa490a5095b5f515c08d6799d41b595d3275f7a80fcf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-15T11:51:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb7ec8602f353e5abe9cafafea4416a846a6f242c0f012f69a694051c03295a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.3096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}