Pith Number

pith:VFV2TFIX

pith:2011:VFV2TFIX62SSWUNEPX6INIU33H

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Shape Dynamics. An Introduction

Julian Barbour

arxiv:1105.0183 v1 · 2011-05-01 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFV2TFIX62SSWUNEPX6INIU33H}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:23:12.352820Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a96ba99517f6a52b51a47dfc86a29bd9c030bcf7647ef6329145bec0b0ac03d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.0183 · arxiv_version: 1105.0183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.0183 · pith_short_12: VFV2TFIX62SS · pith_short_16: VFV2TFIX62SSWUNE · pith_short_8: VFV2TFIX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VFV2TFIX62SSWUNEPX6INIU33H \
  | 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: a96ba99517f6a52b51a47dfc86a29bd9c030bcf7647ef6329145bec0b0ac03d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3cf8866c69fb7ca7d38d68861067965bdc736a8259d3569468304c1a86e5b295",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-01T16:27:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3509dd1b2ee33e6b898e894ddb367c1a5a6d13a2cf126a163c40f8591fa7915a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.0183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}