Pith Number

pith:HNKVADV3

pith:2026:HNKVADV3AHY2DME37UMDYNSVFH

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That Damned Equation. Rigour, Credit Attribution, and the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation 1962-1967

Alexander S. Blum, Dean Rickles, Karim Th\'ebault

arxiv:2605.29696 v1 · 2026-05-28 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HNKVADV3AHY2DME37UMDYNSVFH}

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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	2026-05-29T01:05:56.069341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b55500ebb01f1a1b09bfd183c365529c6d59db7513cda0e5f9d8392fdd354a8

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29696 · arxiv_version: 2605.29696v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29696 · pith_short_12: HNKVADV3AHY2 · pith_short_16: HNKVADV3AHY2DME3 · pith_short_8: HNKVADV3

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/HNKVADV3AHY2DME37UMDYNSVFH \
  | 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: 3b55500ebb01f1a1b09bfd183c365529c6d59db7513cda0e5f9d8392fdd354a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90013612ebb5fec613b1305a6b3dea75e894c386c539c7088762ed67c04e5e48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T09:55:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f59f5787f451024431eac78367bcefdfec577c2480a305f3eba60525645ef75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29696",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}