Pith Number

pith:IM7CPSY7

pith:2016:IM7CPSY7O3UFNOWNY25SP4L366

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Observer's Ghost: a field-space connection-form and its application to gauge theories and general relativity

Aldo Riello, Henrique Gomes

arxiv:1608.08226 v2 · 2016-08-29 · math-ph · gr-qc · hep-th · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IM7CPSY7O3UFNOWNY25SP4L366}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:51.345007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

433e27cb1f76e856bacdc6bb27f17bf7ab475b582fd8eeb1804feaf437b10482

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08226 · arxiv_version: 1608.08226v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08226 · pith_short_12: IM7CPSY7O3UF · pith_short_16: IM7CPSY7O3UFNOWN · pith_short_8: IM7CPSY7

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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/IM7CPSY7O3UFNOWNY25SP4L366 \
  | 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: 433e27cb1f76e856bacdc6bb27f17bf7ab475b582fd8eeb1804feaf437b10482

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52daed93daa89413b3569e27db539a02f571697f9d98ccb2e14da1896d1ed7cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-29T20:00:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11acdb95d8e2f3bcdf54714813c683eb2fd18c606d0d69a932f5f8a67d8bf9fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08226",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}