Pith Number

pith:7BIYGUAW

pith:1996:7BIYGUAWUDALGO62NUFSNZI4OQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Gravity and Turning Points in the Semiclassical Approximation

Esko Keski-Vakkuri (Caltech), Samir D. Mathur (MIT)

arxiv:gr-qc/9604058 v3 · 1996-05-01 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7BIYGUAWUDALGO62NUFSNZI4OQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:47.761732Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f851835016a0c0b33bda6d0b26e51c741f721adb07b4e8bf029d2137ba22a9de

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9604058 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9604058v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9604058 · pith_short_12: 7BIYGUAWUDAL · pith_short_16: 7BIYGUAWUDALGO62 · pith_short_8: 7BIYGUAW

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/7BIYGUAWUDALGO62NUFSNZI4OQ \
  | 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: f851835016a0c0b33bda6d0b26e51c741f721adb07b4e8bf029d2137ba22a9de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "979ecca3399ea57ababcbd84b966ea41fe4f3f0993c0f138134d07be174de74b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-01T00:19:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be76dfea8927c5335c8ab56977bd91b41784b9cd7006cadedf0f7def7590118b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9604058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}