Pith Number

pith:W4HO4MH3

pith:2015:W4HO4MH3GK2JRCQGGAUTDUSRQP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Some Inconvenient Truths

R. P. Woodard (University of Florida)

arxiv:1506.04252 v1 · 2015-06-13 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W4HO4MH3GK2JRCQGGAUTDUSRQP}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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1 paper in Pith

Graviton propagator in de Sitter space in a simple one-parameter gauge

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:49:55.147967Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b70eee30fb32b4988a06302931d25183c5e031fdc133c9295e0ce42829961742

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.04252 · arxiv_version: 1506.04252v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.04252 · pith_short_12: W4HO4MH3GK2J · pith_short_16: W4HO4MH3GK2JRCQG · pith_short_8: W4HO4MH3

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/W4HO4MH3GK2JRCQGGAUTDUSRQP \
  | 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: b70eee30fb32b4988a06302931d25183c5e031fdc133c9295e0ce42829961742

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e67334c397f77f47f132fd40938e97aa0513d930fb6b54de89908fe5f5fec204",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-13T11:16:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "900f6e65f718955de1f392358cafc9d01df29f98976ed00dfd7c00e0806b96f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.04252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}