Pith Number

pith:VF5WUXIK

pith:2016:VF5WUXIKH2Q54CPAV53SM56DUY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polymer Quantization of a Self-Gravitating Thin Shell

Gabor Kunstatter, Jack Gegenberg, Jonathan Ziprick

arxiv:1609.06665 v1 · 2016-09-21 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VF5WUXIKH2Q54CPAV53SM56DUY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:41.335590Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a97b6a5d0a3ea1de09e0af772677c3a63d08faf781fd13e6b9eb0186bfac2bd1

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.06665 · arxiv_version: 1609.06665v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.06665 · pith_short_12: VF5WUXIKH2Q5 · pith_short_16: VF5WUXIKH2Q54CPA · pith_short_8: VF5WUXIK

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/VF5WUXIKH2Q54CPAV53SM56DUY \
  | 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: a97b6a5d0a3ea1de09e0af772677c3a63d08faf781fd13e6b9eb0186bfac2bd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03ef6f69d13297bb57906971f2d8f4f2438d228f144932c2599cb209c40c0c54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-21T18:31:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6111f90ac15c61c588f498eb66c9f5cf853a704c0faee8a1e03d8f7a97a38d35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.06665",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}