Pith Number

pith:L7WH3DCW

pith:2018:L7WH3DCWSF6R6PQJRRIZ3IGYNB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum-first gravity

Steven B. Giddings

arxiv:1803.04973 v2 · 2018-03-13 · hep-th · gr-qc · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L7WH3DCWSF6R6PQJRRIZ3IGYNB}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Quantum gravity observables: observation, algebras, and mathematical structure

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:50:15.969740Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5fec7d8c56917d1f3e098c519da0d8685146d7e1f71217de35e8d16209a74853

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04973 · arxiv_version: 1803.04973v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04973 · pith_short_12: L7WH3DCWSF6R · pith_short_16: L7WH3DCWSF6R6PQJ · pith_short_8: L7WH3DCW

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/L7WH3DCWSF6R6PQJRRIZ3IGYNB \
  | 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: 5fec7d8c56917d1f3e098c519da0d8685146d7e1f71217de35e8d16209a74853

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f928ecdf8359b3f39f7daee74637fc2d083cea5e596a834bd4670b9ef6fa160",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-13T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47d3922c6fc9728ee7fdf5a5503b01e9f17521fe83a40379334623290e578ae2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04973",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}