Pith Number

pith:3TIBCZGE

pith:1994:3TIBCZGET2D2JFBGSZ73J6MCLA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chern-Simons functional and the no-boundary proposal in Bianchi IX quantum cosmology

Jorma Louko

arxiv:gr-qc/9408033 v2 · 1994-08-26 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3TIBCZGET2D2JFBGSZ73J6MCLA}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:57.026386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcd01164c49e87a49426967fb4f9825814edf4e9a73d0fbdb062ad02c4133f93

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9408033 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9408033v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9408033 · pith_short_12: 3TIBCZGET2D2 · pith_short_16: 3TIBCZGET2D2JFBG · pith_short_8: 3TIBCZGE

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/3TIBCZGET2D2JFBGSZ73J6MCLA \
  | 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: dcd01164c49e87a49426967fb4f9825814edf4e9a73d0fbdb062ad02c4133f93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5018ad2cfdf87ac5f707bc23b50ac559bfbe02403c5547fef002d05458af2de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1994-08-26T03:22:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "095da90c08031160d1870fe8e13f5e6b2705988b8cfffa1babe7f5b3cca30c73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9408033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}