Pith Number

pith:IQXTT4US

pith:1994:IQXTT4USVCGS7GZHA6X5UXRFXK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Integration on the space of Connections Modulo Gauge Transformations

Abhay Ashtekar, Donald Marolf, Jose Mourao

arxiv:gr-qc/9403042 v3 · 1994-03-22 · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IQXTT4USVCGS7GZHA6X5UXRFXK}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:25.206950Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

442f39f292a88d2f9b2707afda5e25baafaef15d5c7ffc45df6ce7b7586f49a5

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9403042 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9403042v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9403042 · pith_short_12: IQXTT4USVCGS · pith_short_16: IQXTT4USVCGS7GZH · pith_short_8: IQXTT4US

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/IQXTT4USVCGS7GZHA6X5UXRFXK \
  | 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: 442f39f292a88d2f9b2707afda5e25baafaef15d5c7ffc45df6ce7b7586f49a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fee33cabccb7297836b9528bb217b95f4881647885c64c9b052eafe47d53074",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1994-03-22T02:38:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e304543119a23a9f936ee4538fffcf8f3be525e4e14dca051a0ff1577f783cf9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9403042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}