Pith Number

pith:4XWQPVTS

pith:1998:4XWQPVTSBPAZMG5SRFDR6LQSGJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hamiltonian Time Evolution for General Relativity

Arlen Anderson, James W. York, jr

arxiv:gr-qc/9807041 v1 · 1998-07-16 · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XWQPVTSBPAZMG5SRFDR6LQSGJ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:47:41.584879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5ed07d6720bc1961bb289471f2e12325791dc873cd05634017f014699c69430

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9807041 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9807041v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9807041 · pith_short_12: 4XWQPVTSBPAZ · pith_short_16: 4XWQPVTSBPAZMG5S · pith_short_8: 4XWQPVTS

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/4XWQPVTSBPAZMG5SRFDR6LQSGJ \
  | 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: e5ed07d6720bc1961bb289471f2e12325791dc873cd05634017f014699c69430

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4dd90e06780585e759af1c9ea0d80836ae6a7bb9e18a77b5229a42bf8199953",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-16T13:16:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd6b63b989d5596dac487662514aa11031138258884af590993dbbf444c948a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9807041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}