Pith Number

pith:VCKOTRGI

pith:2014:VCKOTRGI2XXT2KUNV563ROAZ35

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Matters of Gravity, The Newsletter of the Topical Group on Gravitation of the American Physical Society, Volume 44, December 2014

David Garfinkle

arxiv:1412.8368 v3 · 2014-12-22 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCKOTRGI2XXT2KUNV563ROAZ35}

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:07.520585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a894e9c4c8d5ef3d2a8daf7db8b819df7185d4305e38cc0020311bbd511476e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.8368 · arxiv_version: 1412.8368v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.8368 · pith_short_12: VCKOTRGI2XXT · pith_short_16: VCKOTRGI2XXT2KUN · pith_short_8: VCKOTRGI

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/VCKOTRGI2XXT2KUNV563ROAZ35 \
  | 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: a894e9c4c8d5ef3d2a8daf7db8b819df7185d4305e38cc0020311bbd511476e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa27bd29d0490f7bfb579e6e8ca33de060e45d2bfb22722eedb8b9aae7551717",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-22T14:01:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab7d80ae6cb5c77e30773969f3b73d708d4b14d025cfa0d65d8fe7853d7245d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.8368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}