Pith Number

pith:VMC7Q4X4

pith:2015:VMC7Q4X4I35VF5N4EWO3SZYUPL

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A Graphical Introduction to Special Relativity Based on a Modern Approach to Minkowski Diagrams

Boxiang Liu, Thushara Perera

arxiv:1508.01968 v1 · 2015-08-08 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMC7Q4X4I35VF5N4EWO3SZYUPL}

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4 Citations open

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✓ 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	2026-05-18T01:35:37.443388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab05f872fc46fb52f5bc259db967147ad7eb1327c9aceb59a5f0b0664c4349ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.01968 · arxiv_version: 1508.01968v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01968 · pith_short_12: VMC7Q4X4I35V · pith_short_16: VMC7Q4X4I35VF5N4 · pith_short_8: VMC7Q4X4

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/VMC7Q4X4I35VF5N4EWO3SZYUPL \
  | 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: ab05f872fc46fb52f5bc259db967147ad7eb1327c9aceb59a5f0b0664c4349ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8470c1d9d443e6354c7de0f2d8df073868a8025879551a17c4ed8351e495f5f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-08T23:16:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9370d77c81bcbc1e516bc4b55536c3f0e75bbc0d044bea57a014e7c597bb626"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.01968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}