Pith Number

pith:IZFA4HMT

pith:2007:IZFA4HMTWJF34SAGPPXQOIEVEW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Discrete Space-Time to Minkowski Space: Basic Mechanisms, Methods and Perspectives

Felix Finster

arxiv:0712.0685 v2 · 2007-12-05 · math-ph · math.MP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IZFA4HMTWJF34SAGPPXQOIEVEW}

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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	2026-05-18T02:16:08.779136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

464a0e1d93b24bbe48067bef072095258b52bc97e99dbde00115e9be61d999c4

Aliases

arxiv: 0712.0685 · arxiv_version: 0712.0685v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0712.0685 · pith_short_12: IZFA4HMTWJF3 · pith_short_16: IZFA4HMTWJF34SAG · pith_short_8: IZFA4HMT

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/IZFA4HMTWJF34SAGPPXQOIEVEW \
  | 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: 464a0e1d93b24bbe48067bef072095258b52bc97e99dbde00115e9be61d999c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24714db83c204530794ab6e4b9e0fd58e075cdf68d46f86d1982296d401cce4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-12-05T10:46:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c3443d50e90dd61bfb7e1ae66b47c39383f4a8219970f22a51d75d22b1bcbfb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0712.0685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}