Pith Number

pith:V4A2YIMJ

pith:2000:V4A2YIMJ5Q27RKWZH3BWCWBBLX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational self-forces in weakly curved spacetimes

Eric Poisson, Michael J. Pfenning

arxiv:gr-qc/0012057 v2 · 2000-12-15 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4A2YIMJ5Q27RKWZH3BWCWBBLX}

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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	2026-07-04T15:26:31.728611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af01ac2189ec35f8aad93ec36158215df638f551b8171359fc2f98f6d5cb6728

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0012057 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0012057v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0012057 · pith_short_12: V4A2YIMJ5Q27 · pith_short_16: V4A2YIMJ5Q27RKWZ · pith_short_8: V4A2YIMJ

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/V4A2YIMJ5Q27RKWZH3BWCWBBLX \
  | 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: af01ac2189ec35f8aad93ec36158215df638f551b8171359fc2f98f6d5cb6728

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "477bd3151bb01b39decff5a335857f99f584fba6fe3055c9cc68bd162aaa10db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2000-12-15T15:59:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69998455b588985058c55083be5761152b1fdeeb6592cfa78e31868488dc56c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0012057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}