Pith Number

pith:WBJ6NXEI

pith:1997:WBJ6NXEIO4DQ7TSAZ2VQ2VVSWI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pure states don't wear black

Robert C. Myers

arxiv:gr-qc/9705065 v1 · 1997-05-23 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WBJ6NXEIO4DQ7TSAZ2VQ2VVSWI}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Testing the nature of dark compact objects: a status report

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:16:21.598633Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b053e6dc8877070fce40ceab0d56b2b202cbc28f92b6a8336efc0b3fc9fdaa4d

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9705065 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9705065v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9705065 · pith_short_12: WBJ6NXEIO4DQ · pith_short_16: WBJ6NXEIO4DQ7TSA · pith_short_8: WBJ6NXEI

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/WBJ6NXEIO4DQ7TSAZ2VQ2VVSWI \
  | 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: b053e6dc8877070fce40ceab0d56b2b202cbc28f92b6a8336efc0b3fc9fdaa4d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bd9db1a2a9fac94c43644414af6c2ccb2b41969b9241d5635f5ae3022108969",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-23T23:19:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5b4d487caf8aeebd9061b9610bdaceaa5727cd69d473bd4a831429424978072"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9705065",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}