Pith Number

pith:AEW4Q26L

pith:2002:AEW4Q26LHNYMSZ3M5H2PNX6TH2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On a Pregeometric Origin for Spacetime Dimensionality and Metric Structure

W.M. Stuckey

arxiv:gr-qc/0208057 v2 · 2002-08-19 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AEW4Q26LHNYMSZ3M5H2PNX6TH2}

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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	2026-07-04T14:25:35.828019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

012dc86bcb3b70c9676ce9f4f6dfd33ea2169223cc36349fe4e9aa2afcd2d316

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0208057 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0208057v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0208057 · pith_short_12: AEW4Q26LHNYM · pith_short_16: AEW4Q26LHNYMSZ3M · pith_short_8: AEW4Q26L

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/AEW4Q26LHNYMSZ3M5H2PNX6TH2 \
  | 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: 012dc86bcb3b70c9676ce9f4f6dfd33ea2169223cc36349fe4e9aa2afcd2d316

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48a6ebeec72f19af340ac157250da8443b079bf5ec1384225d64bcee0569bfd0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-19T15:59:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7809f5ae3af0a83c5a60933fa0285377c6fe6ae75cdd5a00ea7760aec8606af5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0208057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}