Pith Number

pith:X5SSEXRE

pith:2016:X5SSEXREKKN5VZL3OVRZPBO7UH

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Shining Light on Quantum Gravity with Pulsar-Black Hole Binaries

John Estes, John H. Simonetti, Matthew Lippert, Michael Kavic

arxiv:1607.00018 v3 · 2016-06-30 · hep-th · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X5SSEXREKKN5VZL3OVRZPBO7UH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:01.176509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf65225e24529bdae57b75639785dfa1d748a898ecfa19e90b244cd501088623

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.00018 · arxiv_version: 1607.00018v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.00018 · pith_short_12: X5SSEXREKKN5 · pith_short_16: X5SSEXREKKN5VZL3 · pith_short_8: X5SSEXRE

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/X5SSEXREKKN5VZL3OVRZPBO7UH \
  | 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: bf65225e24529bdae57b75639785dfa1d748a898ecfa19e90b244cd501088623

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8bc18aad72339bd9c6474185d41c0f36e8a4d8ef294e854eefa53b4c373e9dbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-30T20:00:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2695d941c7805c7c5592391fb7576a5df3be82946222fc2df5ae640f1e66833"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.00018",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}