Pith Number

pith:WVKIIQSF

pith:1996:WVKIIQSFWJFVCMJOZVXVERAPT6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitational vacuum polarization II: Energy conditions in the Boulware vacuum

Matt Visser (Washington University)

arxiv:gr-qc/9604008 v1 · 1996-04-03 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WVKIIQSFWJFVCMJOZVXVERAPT6}

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✓ 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

Affine ANEC selects the closed FRW branch for geodesically complete cosmology

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:13:47.777697Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b554844245b24b51312ecd6f52440f9fac6b18c75cf9b3a285acd3b57be71f3c

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9604008 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9604008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9604008 · pith_short_12: WVKIIQSFWJFV · pith_short_16: WVKIIQSFWJFVCMJO · pith_short_8: WVKIIQSF

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/WVKIIQSFWJFVCMJOZVXVERAPT6 \
  | 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: b554844245b24b51312ecd6f52440f9fac6b18c75cf9b3a285acd3b57be71f3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "114cbfe985a0db0645461265f45713c2c28e022a1e700f87246cdf992bd6c669",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-03T01:31:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18821e9581565c5dbe77344e50be6fac5eb2eda1904a7d6dc1633c82e3518d52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9604008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}