Pith Number

pith:ZXW273LR

pith:2004:ZXW273LREU5DYEP5TPHKETKP3F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mach's Principle

Bahram Mashhoon, Herbert Lichtenegger

arxiv:physics/0407078 v2 · 2004-07-14 · physics.hist-ph · astro-ph · gr-qc · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZXW273LREU5DYEP5TPHKETKP3F}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Inertia

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:10:30.436931Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdedafed71253a3c11fd9bcea24d4fd966a18fcb985642d0656d1331c6917c10

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0407078 · arxiv_version: physics/0407078v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0407078 · pith_short_12: ZXW273LREU5D · pith_short_16: ZXW273LREU5DYEP5 · pith_short_8: ZXW273LR

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/ZXW273LREU5DYEP5TPHKETKP3F \
  | 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: cdedafed71253a3c11fd9bcea24d4fd966a18fcb985642d0656d1331c6917c10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6bf187a0dc79eaa872b957caccc7aa55abfd3131ceac1248e506630a4f157c1d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc",
      "physics.gen-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-07-14T19:17:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd7586112f6a72290d799bd7842d04eb65fccac2947ee8a26cc41f2a79ee78aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0407078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}