Pith Number

pith:2YZ47NJS

pith:2016:2YZ47NJSZ3MOFZEQSL2QWWYBTV

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An Alternate Path Integral for Quantum Gravity

Avinash Raju, Chethan Krishnan, K.V. Pavan Kumar

arxiv:1609.04719 v3 · 2016-09-15 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2YZ47NJSZ3MOFZEQSL2QWWYBTV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:51.732210Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d633cfb532ced8e2e49092f50b5b019d71c20ba6263060f4f03599535cce122f

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04719 · arxiv_version: 1609.04719v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04719 · pith_short_12: 2YZ47NJSZ3MO · pith_short_16: 2YZ47NJSZ3MOFZEQ · pith_short_8: 2YZ47NJS

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/2YZ47NJSZ3MOFZEQSL2QWWYBTV \
  | 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: d633cfb532ced8e2e49092f50b5b019d71c20ba6263060f4f03599535cce122f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91a286e58b443f2955c1419425c88691a97dea97df011e62da3d25238e05db85",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-15T16:17:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ad058e898fb879a73108112be53455c56b1207594e46f0fea75bbb858d18c35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04719",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}