Pith Number

pith:I3JFTQV2

pith:2005:I3JFTQV2EYLH7E7TEVYXJEUYKS

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Causal sets and the deep structure of spacetime

Fay Dowker

arxiv:gr-qc/0508109 v1 · 2005-08-26 · gr-qc · hep-th

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Towards black-hole horizons and geodesic focusing in causal sets

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:50:32.251626Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46d259c2ba26167f93f3257174929854b862900978e1ddd6fda5bb9ab522214d

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0508109 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0508109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0508109 · pith_short_12: I3JFTQV2EYLH · pith_short_16: I3JFTQV2EYLH7E7T · pith_short_8: I3JFTQV2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I3JFTQV2EYLH7E7TEVYXJEUYKS \
  | 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: 46d259c2ba26167f93f3257174929854b862900978e1ddd6fda5bb9ab522214d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d530d462942266947f4f6571fbddb2c5fabaa9cd6131c0d5bb7eeeffff28f151",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-26T20:06:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a13b3cbc19025d0ceceeeb8b4b5f308b481ab6382bf390da3ebb2089e4d6ef5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0508109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}