Pith Number

pith:VSO55HNZ

pith:2018:VSO55HNZMBTRZ5KHTHX4O5LJ34

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The existence and stability of marginally trapped surfaces

Badri Krishnan, Daniel Pook-Kolb, Erik Schnetter, Ofek Birnholtz

arxiv:1811.10405 v1 · 2018-11-26 · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{VSO55HNZMBTRZ5KHTHX4O5LJ34}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:51:30.741324Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac9dde9db960671cf54799efc77569df068b7895b5c1a315597ab828c4162afa

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.10405 · arxiv_version: 1811.10405v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.10405 · pith_short_12: VSO55HNZMBTR · pith_short_16: VSO55HNZMBTRZ5KH · pith_short_8: VSO55HNZ

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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/VSO55HNZMBTRZ5KHTHX4O5LJ34 \
  | 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: ac9dde9db960671cf54799efc77569df068b7895b5c1a315597ab828c4162afa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6205c9e4d37bdb7509ef7a158fe2ad84ccfbf75c5a35bd24bb34e9376dcbd358",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-26T14:45:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c62e7a2fe705f1e01079305b594e983335639b88c1b79be85a0f348f60ae99f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.10405",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}