Pith Number

pith:5GKWIR3E

pith:2010:5GKWIR3EDSEUX4I4FVUS562HKB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

In quantum gravity, summing is refining

Carlo Rovelli, Matteo Smerlak

arxiv:1010.5437 v3 · 2010-10-26 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5GKWIR3EDSEUX4I4FVUS562HKB}

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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	2026-05-18T02:04:58.197947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9956447641c894bf11c2d692efb475063bf2396809897e8fc343cb275107dad

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.5437 · arxiv_version: 1010.5437v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.5437 · pith_short_12: 5GKWIR3EDSEU · pith_short_16: 5GKWIR3EDSEUX4I4 · pith_short_8: 5GKWIR3E

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/5GKWIR3EDSEUX4I4FVUS562HKB \
  | 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: e9956447641c894bf11c2d692efb475063bf2396809897e8fc343cb275107dad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24b795a818c52cc4a6bc20fea26c72848da441e6f57260a015a30f15706ce150",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-26T15:47:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f30969f39557cbe452abb60dfd9d80e0ea4daef281598f55caec7971aeab539e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.5437",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}