Pith Number

pith:VWJB2JN6

pith:2012:VWJB2JN6SSX6V2C6XYSMHDLV7J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Matters of Gravity, The Newsletter of the Topical Group on Gravitation of the American Physical Society, Volume 39, Winter 2012

David Garfinkle

arxiv:1202.4025 v1 · 2012-02-17 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWJB2JN6SSX6V2C6XYSMHDLV7J}

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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	2026-05-18T04:02:01.517276Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad921d25be94afeae85ebe24c38d75fa538516e9729eba394b83e3f9733299de

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.4025 · arxiv_version: 1202.4025v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.4025 · pith_short_12: VWJB2JN6SSX6 · pith_short_16: VWJB2JN6SSX6V2C6 · pith_short_8: VWJB2JN6

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/VWJB2JN6SSX6V2C6XYSMHDLV7J \
  | 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: ad921d25be94afeae85ebe24c38d75fa538516e9729eba394b83e3f9733299de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "038ede6d8e9d42e841523cfff1bf3e1a161eef1a5d2046b932db3e806f8dfc74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-17T21:28:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ff27a1f20779e162db3c434572c95dc6a75f454e86e8aad1bf570fde53f57b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.4025",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}