Pith Number

pith:VF4HSDWI

pith:2017:VF4HSDWIOUMPKCLAVQWBYPAZUS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Toward computing gravitational initial data without elliptic solvers

Istv\'an R\'acz, Jeffrey Winicour

arxiv:1712.03294 v2 · 2017-12-08 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VF4HSDWIOUMPKCLAVQWBYPAZUS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:18.141393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a978790ec87518f50960ac2c1c3c19a4ab603085b93a35010082ad3b13957c9e

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03294 · arxiv_version: 1712.03294v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03294 · pith_short_12: VF4HSDWIOUMP · pith_short_16: VF4HSDWIOUMPKCLA · pith_short_8: VF4HSDWI

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/VF4HSDWIOUMPKCLAVQWBYPAZUS \
  | 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: a978790ec87518f50960ac2c1c3c19a4ab603085b93a35010082ad3b13957c9e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4e6840cd7718169c282ef9fd88f152f08f6e290381487725078291bc5c02a42",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-08T22:07:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3fb849288361c9db558eebcdb31e858b6e0598716de447747a90f25b9f172ef0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}