Pith Number

pith:XOS42HJ6

pith:2017:XOS42HJ6BDIGXMNPD2BU3WVUUV

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The theory of gravitation: A tale of many questions and few answers

L. Herrera

arxiv:1704.04386 v1 · 2017-04-14 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XOS42HJ6BDIGXMNPD2BU3WVUUV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:38.495916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bba5cd1d3e08d06bb1af1e834ddab4a558697feadaa276b56d579bb92f80512f

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04386 · arxiv_version: 1704.04386v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04386 · pith_short_12: XOS42HJ6BDIG · pith_short_16: XOS42HJ6BDIGXMNP · pith_short_8: XOS42HJ6

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/XOS42HJ6BDIGXMNPD2BU3WVUUV \
  | 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: bba5cd1d3e08d06bb1af1e834ddab4a558697feadaa276b56d579bb92f80512f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb72c8ed02e9b6a68e26923b3419bd2c7dd584068f0e5407fbdd0b655cc8ef51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-14T10:22:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42570d2f6d1e9552034705d720d8b7a4282b14922b93fd61e4c640f789c19459"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04386",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}