Pith Number

pith:CHKHC4DI

pith:1998:CHKHC4DITMNDYHLC2BGOHYXTWT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum structure of spacetime and blackhole entropy

T. Padmanabhan

arxiv:hep-th/9801015 v1 · 1998-01-05 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CHKHC4DITMNDYHLC2BGOHYXTWT}

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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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Gravity and Quantum Theory: Domains of Conflict and Contact

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:09:39.297084Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

11d47170689b1a3c1d62d04ce3e2f3b4f523cb3136bbc588fa7c1f6cfcfddaf8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9801015 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9801015v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9801015 · pith_short_12: CHKHC4DITMND · pith_short_16: CHKHC4DITMNDYHLC · pith_short_8: CHKHC4DI

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/CHKHC4DITMNDYHLC2BGOHYXTWT \
  | 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: 11d47170689b1a3c1d62d04ce3e2f3b4f523cb3136bbc588fa7c1f6cfcfddaf8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "097bcb3c287594e543236815b31945864b120364a84c994749550c2f545e65ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-01-05T16:40:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed1674f82c518a463a3a7f3cd0be046a3ecee7f76c717dad6cd7293d7249cc79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9801015",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}