Pith Number

pith:XSYAUA6F

pith:1998:XSYAUA6FIUNNYEUC32W4LEDBLL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How and Why Inertial Mass and Gravitational Mass are Equal and Identical

Inc), Roger Ellman (The-Origin Foundation

arxiv:physics/9808051 v8 · 1998-09-01 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XSYAUA6FIUNNYEUC32W4LEDBLL}

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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	2026-05-18T03:36:27.253284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcb00a03c5451adc1282deadc590615afce8de44651d9dd69885378dcdaf3b2b

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9808051 · arxiv_version: physics/9808051v8 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9808051 · pith_short_12: XSYAUA6FIUNN · pith_short_16: XSYAUA6FIUNNYEUC · pith_short_8: XSYAUA6F

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/XSYAUA6FIUNNYEUC32W4LEDBLL \
  | 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: bcb00a03c5451adc1282deadc590615afce8de44651d9dd69885378dcdaf3b2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d65f107912aeb110dfc50c02c0142388c8170b7c9f5acdc62291420716c91d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-01T01:56:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2796f4d44546842cfd0662aec114f78262faf14be54a97fdb36212374f5a8a0b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9808051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 8
  }
}