Pith Number

pith:XBZHS4ML

pith:2017:XBZHS4MLZKRLGCYIYO7NVPDV7J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

STU Black Holes and SgrA*

C.N. Pope, G.W. Gibbons, M. Cvetic

arxiv:1705.05740 v1 · 2017-05-16 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBZHS4MLZKRLGCYIYO7NVPDV7J}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:49.304849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b87279718bcaa2b30b08c3bedabc75fa72a67e185fb075f77d09eac33fd31499

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.05740 · arxiv_version: 1705.05740v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.05740 · pith_short_12: XBZHS4MLZKRL · pith_short_16: XBZHS4MLZKRLGCYI · pith_short_8: XBZHS4ML

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/XBZHS4MLZKRLGCYIYO7NVPDV7J \
  | 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: b87279718bcaa2b30b08c3bedabc75fa72a67e185fb075f77d09eac33fd31499

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35075e134aa355042d839de477298d6749f9978c13c86e575dcb92ed8bbe6601",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-16T14:51:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ee0547b6c18f04c25ace6d5ef756292b4a4c0ce3345c3086eb86fbe283b469b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.05740",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}