Pith Number

pith:XN5J2FRH

pith:2014:XN5J2FRHDWUWWHPBNDJNWWVFNM

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Generalised time functions and finiteness of the Lorentzian distance

Adam Rennie, Ben E. Whale

arxiv:1412.5652 v3 · 2014-12-17 · math.DG · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XN5J2FRHDWUWWHPBNDJNWWVFNM}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:49:04.943071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb7a9d16271da96b1de168d2db5aa56b1368e5f366c74650804b35f85e8c2811

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.5652 · arxiv_version: 1412.5652v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.5652 · pith_short_12: XN5J2FRHDWUW · pith_short_16: XN5J2FRHDWUWWHPB · pith_short_8: XN5J2FRH

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/XN5J2FRHDWUWWHPBNDJNWWVFNM \
  | 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: bb7a9d16271da96b1de168d2db5aa56b1368e5f366c74650804b35f85e8c2811

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebf79522805f9840b49a15e88cd6f08fc73743d7be70cd8f67623271df7cb780",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.DG",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-17T22:18:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a04a4998c072255dffa711220e20a7f00c354943a28e4bedb2de7ef7ed17bc3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.5652",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}