Pith Number

pith:VUYRNLSF

pith:2025:VUYRNLSFSYFWN4EHBRJZOEBSUS

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The mechanism for creating "dynamical gravastar" black hole mimickers also explains formation of "little red dots"

Stephen L. Adler

arxiv:2509.23490 v4 · 2025-09-27 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VUYRNLSFSYFWN4EHBRJZOEBSUS}

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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	2026-05-17T23:39:01.120681Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad3116ae45960b66f0870c53971032a4aaa18602d656d80a59780b32e805bf6a

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.23490 · arxiv_version: 2509.23490v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.23490 · pith_short_12: VUYRNLSFSYFW · pith_short_16: VUYRNLSFSYFWN4EH · pith_short_8: VUYRNLSF

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/VUYRNLSFSYFWN4EHBRJZOEBSUS \
  | 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: ad3116ae45960b66f0870c53971032a4aaa18602d656d80a59780b32e805bf6a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "750f18f19e1699133d6a96006d3445689d3a65be505009c5421b6f0c7959e4f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-27T20:36:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35efd73b4b7131bc92c439f1a6bed2045555e6acf5250c7cf5f7626a29e539d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.23490",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}