Pith Number

pith:WNCWQFRR

pith:2017:WNCWQFRRFDJGPRZJYGIRLEXH5Q

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Conservation, Inertia, and Spacetime Geometry

James Owen Weatherall

arxiv:1702.01642 v2 · 2017-02-06 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WNCWQFRRFDJGPRZJYGIRLEXH5Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:58.578796Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b34568163128d267c729c1911592e7ec092079ba716a75f29429b77866439a5c

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01642 · arxiv_version: 1702.01642v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01642 · pith_short_12: WNCWQFRRFDJG · pith_short_16: WNCWQFRRFDJGPRZJ · pith_short_8: WNCWQFRR

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/WNCWQFRRFDJGPRZJYGIRLEXH5Q \
  | 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: b34568163128d267c729c1911592e7ec092079ba716a75f29429b77866439a5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2664428967859691719d33ec3e894a4eed601f430009aa99fd371fad565ddf1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-06T15:08:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4767ec9dac921f779ade2066b052a7e4318d859761173758736ffb13ea274b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.01642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}