Pith Number

pith:FHYMVFUH

pith:2011:FHYMVFUHXZWXASIBPGXH3AP225

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The emergent nature of time and the complex numbers in quantum cosmology

G. W. Gibbons

arxiv:1111.0457 v1 · 2011-11-02 · gr-qc · hep-th · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FHYMVFUHXZWXASIBPGXH3AP225}

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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	2026-05-18T04:09:44.926934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29f0ca9687be6d70490179ae7d81fad7745e23676c3ddd22b5b2b0c44d8374f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.0457 · arxiv_version: 1111.0457v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.0457 · pith_short_12: FHYMVFUHXZWX · pith_short_16: FHYMVFUHXZWXASIB · pith_short_8: FHYMVFUH

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/FHYMVFUHXZWXASIBPGXH3AP225 \
  | 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: 29f0ca9687be6d70490179ae7d81fad7745e23676c3ddd22b5b2b0c44d8374f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "adff4cb32cfdfc8354ab52fb9f4f4d5b4dfd5852930ad6e8bad539f8012c9c45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-02T10:50:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c780bb111bd782abc757bb7bad50f37003c2acf0dad665921d37d79c1003903c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.0457",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}