Pith Number

pith:6ZSWT7DC

pith:2021:6ZSWT7DCTH37UDHQFZUCMWQ3MZ

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Why Does Quantum Field Theory In Curved Spacetime Make Sense? And What Happens To The Algebra of Observables In The Thermodynamic Limit?

Edward Witten

arxiv:2112.11614 v5 · 2021-12-22 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T04:42:45.798613Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f66569fc6299f7fa0cf02e68265a1b6657d9bc73cc12799c0a7ee0997ef820e5

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.11614 · arxiv_version: 2112.11614v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.11614 · pith_short_12: 6ZSWT7DCTH37 · pith_short_16: 6ZSWT7DCTH37UDHQ · pith_short_8: 6ZSWT7DC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6ZSWT7DCTH37UDHQFZUCMWQ3MZ \
  | 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: f66569fc6299f7fa0cf02e68265a1b6657d9bc73cc12799c0a7ee0997ef820e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "576d4ef1d37c8d918a09b57e15478ef572278d69062a0303fdaa8973e90632c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-22T01:39:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67661c770eaa6c6f23ce0a629a2646ca87c99ab526d9af7cd20c772750015ee3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.11614",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}