Pith Number

pith:X2Z65RJM

pith:2011:X2Z65RJM325T53E2HRHWDACYX3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simultaneity in Minkowski spacetime: from uniqueness to arbitrariness

Fabien Besnard

arxiv:1104.1263 v1 · 2011-04-07 · math-ph · math.MP · physics.hist-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2Z65RJM325T53E2HRHWDACYX3}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:43:52.939683Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

beb3eec52cdebb3eec9a3c4f618058bed3d30375cd935e717314ac1558b57aab

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.1263 · arxiv_version: 1104.1263v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.1263 · pith_short_12: X2Z65RJM325T · pith_short_16: X2Z65RJM325T53E2 · pith_short_8: X2Z65RJM

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/X2Z65RJM325T53E2HRHWDACYX3 \
  | 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: beb3eec52cdebb3eec9a3c4f618058bed3d30375cd935e717314ac1558b57aab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8952b79a2379344ff9a84bb94dd4fd15f56ff70b16a58ae5552e650ffb9c58e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-07T08:03:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e662738022eb06520e20081be2e2357269f1dc421a9fb60c66fe2bf120ff478f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.1263",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}