Pith Number

pith:ITNZCVK7

pith:2011:ITNZCVK7N6QYYWERK5TPQ4COXQ

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Covariant Gauge Fixing and Canonical Quantization

D. G. C. McKeon

arxiv:1112.3646 v1 · 2011-12-15 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ITNZCVK7N6QYYWERK5TPQ4COXQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:40:34.071303Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44db91555f6fa18c58915766f8704ebc3c2a2b0338962f47e5c64fe58b6ff0ee

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.3646 · arxiv_version: 1112.3646v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.3646 · pith_short_12: ITNZCVK7N6QY · pith_short_16: ITNZCVK7N6QYYWER · pith_short_8: ITNZCVK7

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/ITNZCVK7N6QYYWERK5TPQ4COXQ \
  | 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: 44db91555f6fa18c58915766f8704ebc3c2a2b0338962f47e5c64fe58b6ff0ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c595adc1db050f642e19c36a7677f17b3947c63d39937b9be456f70a9997c38a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-15T20:46:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15bee4f90309027a90a0e6b4e4eeea70510e051e9e0deac6aeffcf174b860c93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.3646",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}