Pith Number

pith:Y4UGKS6Q

pith:1997:Y4UGKS6Q7FG2XIR3TOWL3KG3EP

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Bounding the mass of the graviton using gravitional-wave observations of inspiralling compact binaries

Clifford M. Will (Washington University, St. Louis)

arxiv:gr-qc/9709011 v1 · 1997-09-04 · gr-qc

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6 papers in Pith

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Forecasting graviton-mass constraints from the full covariance of PTA-astrometry ORF estimators

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:18:23.254819Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c728654bd0f94daba23b9bacbda8db23f3189b6ae3ceea593954bb811aff40e6

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9709011 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9709011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9709011 · pith_short_12: Y4UGKS6Q7FG2 · pith_short_16: Y4UGKS6Q7FG2XIR3 · pith_short_8: Y4UGKS6Q

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y4UGKS6Q7FG2XIR3TOWL3KG3EP \
  | 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: c728654bd0f94daba23b9bacbda8db23f3189b6ae3ceea593954bb811aff40e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c568a367763a89674077900a0b1c37e85f201123c300ce755515ff8427bba360",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1997-09-04T15:10:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f27bc308cd9c7041f893beffc4864f494f52c4ee37501a11c7a7cfa134326da0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9709011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}