Pith Number

pith:UTYXX5EE

pith:2023:UTYXX5EEDCSPHYCOFRPTHHGASC

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Defect wormholes are defective

Joshua Baines (Victoria University of Wellington), Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington), Rudeep Gaur (Victoria University of Wellington)

arxiv:2308.16624 v2 · 2023-08-31 · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{UTYXX5EEDCSPHYCOFRPTHHGASC}

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:04:50.336094Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4f17bf48418a4f3e04e2c5f339cc09084d774e4c5b0f2d8731a0f875d0b7110

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.16624 · arxiv_version: 2308.16624v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.16624 · pith_short_12: UTYXX5EEDCSP · pith_short_16: UTYXX5EEDCSPHYCO · pith_short_8: UTYXX5EE

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UTYXX5EEDCSPHYCOFRPTHHGASC \
  | 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: a4f17bf48418a4f3e04e2c5f339cc09084d774e4c5b0f2d8731a0f875d0b7110

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "386ede3427ad9f660c40f32d71e31b945ebc730a53ebda8d3d2c011a2380dbc2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-31T10:42:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dac097eb19acf7093f24bf0f60738243857f20f45cddbc020b27562e87dff600"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.16624",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}