Pith Number

pith:44OOFXWT

pith:2012:44OOFXWTYAEWSIX7QYUVMOWDQA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Emergent spacetime and empirical (in)coherence

Christian Wuthrich, Nick Huggett

arxiv:1206.6290 v2 · 2012-06-26 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{44OOFXWTYAEWSIX7QYUVMOWDQA}

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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	2026-05-18T03:16:17.363010Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e71ce2ded3c0096922ff8629563ac3803c7c29a8253952fbc83d60f1ad3ce985

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.6290 · arxiv_version: 1206.6290v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.6290 · pith_short_12: 44OOFXWTYAEW · pith_short_16: 44OOFXWTYAEWSIX7 · pith_short_8: 44OOFXWT

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/44OOFXWTYAEWSIX7QYUVMOWDQA \
  | 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: e71ce2ded3c0096922ff8629563ac3803c7c29a8253952fbc83d60f1ad3ce985

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d26718ef37526bfecce6eee9ea5d041be571ce0bc198239b61ae521607f59b5e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-26T19:44:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c79cc700bd7d551aa2e6d926eca724bd3026d30afc79ce6b4386b81dd760278"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.6290",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}