Pith Number

pith:27VWNJBX

pith:2020:27VWNJBXYJIWLQQCSQ24LR52JO

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Gauge Is More Than Mathematical Redundancy

Carlo Rovelli

arxiv:2009.10362 v1 · 2020-09-22 · hep-th · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{27VWNJBXYJIWLQQCSQ24LR52JO}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:31:42.210383Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d7eb66a437c25165c2029435c5c7ba4ba5fb410dc6f71a20df1bb1cc1a5efe5f

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.10362 · arxiv_version: 2009.10362v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.10362 · pith_short_12: 27VWNJBXYJIW · pith_short_16: 27VWNJBXYJIWLQQC · pith_short_8: 27VWNJBX

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/27VWNJBXYJIWLQQCSQ24LR52JO \
  | 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: d7eb66a437c25165c2029435c5c7ba4ba5fb410dc6f71a20df1bb1cc1a5efe5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80da8ed933135ca4a6a832262a1256aa6f8a6e71188b5f931a1fe8b74e1d8f77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-22T07:37:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "904efb906d35aba22f1e7020dfa3d0664e705d871829cb7d350da283c14c79f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.10362",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}