Pith Number

pith:AJKOV3VP

pith:1999:AJKOV3VP63673PNSX6WG3UPYKN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum interest for scalar fields in Minkowski spacetime

Frans Pretorius

arxiv:gr-qc/9903055 v2 · 1999-03-15 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AJKOV3VP63673PNSX6WG3UPYKN}

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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	2026-07-04T16:13:50.074823Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0254eaeeaff6fdfdbdb2bfac6dd1f8536dabe3a1fd59d75272fdda1bc5db97b6

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9903055 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9903055v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9903055 · pith_short_12: AJKOV3VP6367 · pith_short_16: AJKOV3VP63673PNS · pith_short_8: AJKOV3VP

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/AJKOV3VP63673PNSX6WG3UPYKN \
  | 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: 0254eaeeaff6fdfdbdb2bfac6dd1f8536dabe3a1fd59d75272fdda1bc5db97b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c642563e0569b6cfebd1288ddf68017726d27b407b71577e6dedc8e886a89f84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1999-03-15T01:17:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "982f25d678649c860ca6b7fceeddf92a634d40e86dc9e9a9bef1ea92ba6050c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9903055",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}