Pith Number

pith:YVPGEQIY

pith:2004:YVPGEQIYOTHCSGUXCFFXO5P736

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Initial Value Problem Using Metric and Extrinsic Curvature

James W. York

arxiv:gr-qc/0405005 v1 · 2004-05-01 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YVPGEQIYOTHCSGUXCFFXO5P736}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:50.367645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c55e62411874ce291a97114b7775ffdf865b46725c41049e6894c080ed3b1aae

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0405005 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0405005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0405005 · pith_short_12: YVPGEQIYOTHC · pith_short_16: YVPGEQIYOTHCSGUX · pith_short_8: YVPGEQIY

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/YVPGEQIYOTHCSGUXCFFXO5P736 \
  | 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: c55e62411874ce291a97114b7775ffdf865b46725c41049e6894c080ed3b1aae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5cf2aedad237474ba9029f9152cb7a6b92932f13e728bafbe5b97470cd02f5a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2004-05-01T19:48:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "588333609b10056cef40ceb8b3f4a8054b11c15b1f2cd3205914cce8caa892b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0405005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}