Pith Number

pith:VSZTAXVL

pith:2004:VSZTAXVL4F4ZTANHWCYTWM3PP5

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Geodesics and distance in classical physics

A. N. Grigorenko

arxiv:physics/0409134 v2 · 2004-09-25 · physics.class-ph · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSZTAXVL4F4ZTANHWCYTWM3PP5}

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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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First computed	2026-05-17T23:55:05.556410Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acb3305eabe1799981a7b0b13b336f7f7ff269d402d29456179a0cf9add1c576

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0409134 · arxiv_version: physics/0409134v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0409134 · pith_short_12: VSZTAXVL4F4Z · pith_short_16: VSZTAXVL4F4ZTANH · pith_short_8: VSZTAXVL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VSZTAXVL4F4ZTANHWCYTWM3PP5 \
  | 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: acb3305eabe1799981a7b0b13b336f7f7ff269d402d29456179a0cf9add1c576

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b640be44b33782fb263d0e8c7e7f3bb2ae6819e1c2a0ad07735bdfa694825567",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.gen-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-09-25T23:56:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2058836b18b8d9dc1e3a724c2c1291b84998d585ec113a4fc9f6d6834f51d430"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0409134",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}