Pith Number

pith:ASR3EZL5

pith:2014:ASR3EZL5SIXQ6WNP2TXR5WRAF5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Identification of a gravitational arrow of time

Flavio Mercati, Julian Barbour, Tim Koslowski

arxiv:1409.0917 v1 · 2014-09-02 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ASR3EZL5SIXQ6WNP2TXR5WRAF5}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Gauging Time Reversal Symmetry in Quantum Gravity: Arrow of Time from a Confinement--Deconfinement Transition

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:35:57.240097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04a3b2657d922f0f59afd4ef1eda202f4273c87ba982a8948294d78941f91606

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.0917 · arxiv_version: 1409.0917v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.0917 · pith_short_12: ASR3EZL5SIXQ · pith_short_16: ASR3EZL5SIXQ6WNP · pith_short_8: ASR3EZL5

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/ASR3EZL5SIXQ6WNP2TXR5WRAF5 \
  | 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: 04a3b2657d922f0f59afd4ef1eda202f4273c87ba982a8948294d78941f91606

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c884d2eeaf92bc362183a750f2339e1229c3f40339a49a53bc37275ed9e4a19b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-02T23:07:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59d509784c36495011ecd7c7099fb812c1e8b3eab708f6896c694f63df225ef2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.0917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}