Pith Number

pith:WDSV6VRG

pith:2009:WDSV6VRGHQUZEM44INXPEP646K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitation as a Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum

Virginia V. Fernandez, Waldyr A. Rodrigues Jr

arxiv:0909.4472 v8 · 2009-09-24 · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WDSV6VRGHQUZEM44INXPEP646K}

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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	2026-05-18T02:11:37.982554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0e55f56263c2992339c436ef23fdcf2844008eb555f9b6c1180cdaf7886bc30

Aliases

arxiv: 0909.4472 · arxiv_version: 0909.4472v8 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0909.4472 · pith_short_12: WDSV6VRGHQUZ · pith_short_16: WDSV6VRGHQUZEM44 · pith_short_8: WDSV6VRG

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/WDSV6VRGHQUZEM44INXPEP646K \
  | 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: b0e55f56263c2992339c436ef23fdcf2844008eb555f9b6c1180cdaf7886bc30

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27991bd274819c813022eacda6f3571ac7021309efb9eca0c724c014830549fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-09-24T19:15:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50112897bf5f1dff88015523a582cb0641e1b55ecb390c0b71650206a5d7d344"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0909.4472",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 8
  }
}