Pith Number

pith:JPGET3ZN

pith:1998:JPGET3ZNWMQF2XJJIJH47YNKQJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Gravity Without Ghosts

Bryce DeWitt, Carmen Molina-Paris

arxiv:hep-th/9808163 v1 · 1998-08-27 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JPGET3ZNWMQF2XJJIJH47YNKQJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T16:09:53.536776Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4bcc49ef2db3205d5d29424fcfe1aa8271dd569d6ed416abf28bb0ff2ab2d123

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9808163 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9808163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9808163 · pith_short_12: JPGET3ZNWMQF · pith_short_16: JPGET3ZNWMQF2XJJ · pith_short_8: JPGET3ZN

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/JPGET3ZNWMQF2XJJIJH47YNKQJ \
  | 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: 4bcc49ef2db3205d5d29424fcfe1aa8271dd569d6ed416abf28bb0ff2ab2d123

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "400cfaf5f2a297c3819888376299cd56732322ac02af437b9ba559a75978ffd6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-08-27T00:57:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87ba3991fa536b4f436ef81fc4e80930eac87636510b4b80a52955319fa312de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9808163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}