Pith Number

pith:GBSPXCKV

pith:1999:GBSPXCKVKBOW45ONV4DS36C4DK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity

C.J.Isham, J. Butterfield

arxiv:gr-qc/9901024 v1 · 1999-01-08 · gr-qc

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Relational Quantum Dynamics (RQD): An Informational Ontology

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:26:14.814909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3064fb8955505d6e75cdaf072df85c1a95dec6a33f1b09a82a2ff6ad1f76e991

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9901024 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9901024v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9901024 · pith_short_12: GBSPXCKVKBOW · pith_short_16: GBSPXCKVKBOW45ON · pith_short_8: GBSPXCKV

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GBSPXCKVKBOW45ONV4DS36C4DK \
  | 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: 3064fb8955505d6e75cdaf072df85c1a95dec6a33f1b09a82a2ff6ad1f76e991

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcb44ff1b1e6a1ea8c33425b3f41976e8001de0d78fb5da81725340b0f3ca77f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1999-01-08T14:02:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b5ca6a5d19e594dd7118b76c294af0c3f193880b11a3900d1b071a2ee7cf1ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9901024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}