Pith Number

pith:VRDF4PYE

pith:2012:VRDF4PYEGLWLEL4AIJMII34HYV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generalized Minkowski space with changing shape

\'Akos G.Horv\'ath

arxiv:1212.0278 v3 · 2012-11-17 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRDF4PYEGLWLEL4AIJMII34HYV}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:13.730649Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac465e3f0432ecb22f804258846f87c54023f78c6331638f5ff63732b2e7171b

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0278 · arxiv_version: 1212.0278v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0278 · pith_short_12: VRDF4PYEGLWL · pith_short_16: VRDF4PYEGLWLEL4A · pith_short_8: VRDF4PYE

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/VRDF4PYEGLWLEL4AIJMII34HYV \
  | 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: ac465e3f0432ecb22f804258846f87c54023f78c6331638f5ff63732b2e7171b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6774a6250c74d48d30eccaa0e1fa160bdd03b48b31a2466406a920495d513e1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-17T10:17:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "761290bbd21e1e564c2510e09cc95aa9549d891aebdb9af9ee93716a77d0f2a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0278",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}