Pith Number

pith:VMMVARKR

pith:2003:VMMVARKRGKM5B42Q2CHGGL4KDK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Equivalence Principle as a Symmetry

Paul S. Wesson

arxiv:gr-qc/0302092 v1 · 2003-02-22 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMMVARKRGKM5B42Q2CHGGL4KDK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:23.273699Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab195045513299d0f350d08e632f8a1a9dcdc2b91664d78ad1a42663c0713d54

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0302092 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0302092v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0302092 · pith_short_12: VMMVARKRGKM5 · pith_short_16: VMMVARKRGKM5B42Q · pith_short_8: VMMVARKR

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/VMMVARKRGKM5B42Q2CHGGL4KDK \
  | 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: ab195045513299d0f350d08e632f8a1a9dcdc2b91664d78ad1a42663c0713d54

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "201a8d327590794a88be49603396dd767e7de22e8100e734c37c1a31673f69a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2003-02-22T22:23:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26d336705852088b840c2e70a2e7e56cbb6d0bb3659f198db3a19d1dfab2c478"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0302092",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}