Pith Number

pith:V4DBQGFZ

pith:2012:V4DBQGFZAPI3WBMP55TWZQQTKZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Physical Basis for a Constant Lag Time

Aristotle Socrates, Boaz Katz

arxiv:1209.5723 v2 · 2012-09-25 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4DBQGFZAPI3WBMP55TWZQQTKZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:43:20.188904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af061818b903d1bb058fef676cc21356532051b0d1604fb06b8699d61f3a9494

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.5723 · arxiv_version: 1209.5723v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.5723 · pith_short_12: V4DBQGFZAPI3 · pith_short_16: V4DBQGFZAPI3WBMP · pith_short_8: V4DBQGFZ

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/V4DBQGFZAPI3WBMP55TWZQQTKZ \
  | 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: af061818b903d1bb058fef676cc21356532051b0d1604fb06b8699d61f3a9494

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85d93af321605dbef59d8db842b16ed9d3f45d8296ed3764be18be5d6ebcc0b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-25T18:54:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8cbafe226a4db92af156b5b5b040374e7f5175bc3c1e9a54ee070ee7e36113fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.5723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}