Pith Number

pith:CL3T3QJJ

pith:2012:CL3T3QJJXY4YEORGDUIIBVKGHL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Potential Foundation for Emergent Space-Time

Kevin H. Knuth, Newshaw Bahreyni

arxiv:1209.0881 v3 · 2012-09-05 · math-ph · gr-qc · hep-th · math.MP · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CL3T3QJJXY4YEORGDUIIBVKGHL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:55.239502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12f73dc129be39823a261d1080d5463aeaa2918c55e89a0e994ed76f6013ff80

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.0881 · arxiv_version: 1209.0881v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.0881 · pith_short_12: CL3T3QJJXY4Y · pith_short_16: CL3T3QJJXY4YEORG · pith_short_8: CL3T3QJJ

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/CL3T3QJJXY4YEORGDUIIBVKGHL \
  | 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: 12f73dc129be39823a261d1080d5463aeaa2918c55e89a0e994ed76f6013ff80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bbfe9f78aa5b9408c045424d679ff0d8f2feb1fda20d357498cfbe7492d68d76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th",
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-05T07:53:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5c6db9ca7057c5d0319e592d5495b76f280aacc5d6503bf0c7b5011425a9a01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.0881",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}