Pith Number

pith:Z547O7DB

pith:2016:Z547O7DBP4LN2TD4X4H6C4YLCE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitational Waves, Gamma Ray Bursts, and Black Stars

Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:1611.03853 v1 · 2016-11-11 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z547O7DBP4LN2TD4X4H6C4YLCE}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:59:33.169300Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf79f77c617f16dd4c7cbf0fe1730b1116385442ecefca0b7cf5d244a15fb517

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.03853 · arxiv_version: 1611.03853v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.03853 · pith_short_12: Z547O7DBP4LN · pith_short_16: Z547O7DBP4LN2TD4 · pith_short_8: Z547O7DB

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/Z547O7DBP4LN2TD4X4H6C4YLCE \
  | 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: cf79f77c617f16dd4c7cbf0fe1730b1116385442ecefca0b7cf5d244a15fb517

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56cff50203dcfeafb2b2ba599cd987b21d9ae0f705ba92c5868fca1e8dc87e54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-11T20:58:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1c8264d5351a151e81027796790373ed1e0e79dc4e3e4c31277a391a99eef12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.03853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}