Pith Number

pith:LB3UN5KS

pith:1998:LB3UN5KSRLF7EX4BLZXNF6NBQ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Unique Theory of Gravity and Matter

George Chapline

arxiv:hep-th/9802165 v1 · 1998-02-25 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LB3UN5KSRLF7EX4BLZXNF6NBQ7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:36.996435Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

587746f5528acbf25f815e6ed2f9a187eb684ac4d570f74cca45a23e27358504

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9802165 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9802165v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9802165 · pith_short_12: LB3UN5KSRLF7 · pith_short_16: LB3UN5KSRLF7EX4B · pith_short_8: LB3UN5KS

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/LB3UN5KSRLF7EX4BLZXNF6NBQ7 \
  | 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: 587746f5528acbf25f815e6ed2f9a187eb684ac4d570f74cca45a23e27358504

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "850ac7b3145fc7d6940da5eb8718810e4547ce7be5f1ba8d7b14705d541234f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-02-25T01:29:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e26780775789ed682ae8029eb21b41abe4fdaf157bb07a56fda03235a5b0f05b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9802165",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}