Pith Number

pith:W2VTX6SU

pith:2002:W2VTX6SUL6C4IPXTHXFHO7W2NL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

No horizons in pp-waves

Mukund Rangamani, Veronika E Hubeny

arxiv:hep-th/0210234 v1 · 2002-10-24 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2VTX6SUL6C4IPXTHXFHO7W2NL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:53.583114Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6ab3bfa545f85c43ef33dca777eda6ada69778b90f895480e7da897c4b924e5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0210234 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0210234v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0210234 · pith_short_12: W2VTX6SUL6C4 · pith_short_16: W2VTX6SUL6C4IPXT · pith_short_8: W2VTX6SU

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/W2VTX6SUL6C4IPXTHXFHO7W2NL \
  | 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: b6ab3bfa545f85c43ef33dca777eda6ada69778b90f895480e7da897c4b924e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba18545c3e09d02d3e8a62011fe65fca3c96d3d11cab34fdf572cc72edb77356",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-24T19:30:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3f357b259e716615651641d5742be74b0993d9f507153991ef2a66e2dac1d14"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0210234",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}