Pith Number

pith:MHN7QCFU

pith:2016:MHN7QCFUCDJAB4WAZ6WREAXNFV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The consistent histories approach to loop quantum cosmology

David A. Craig

arxiv:1604.01385 v3 · 2016-04-05 · gr-qc · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MHN7QCFUCDJAB4WAZ6WREAXNFV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:43.542438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61dbf808b410d200f2c0cfad1202ed2d4b498c4373fe42eb56723eadbc3fb31e

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.01385 · arxiv_version: 1604.01385v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.01385 · pith_short_12: MHN7QCFUCDJA · pith_short_16: MHN7QCFUCDJAB4WA · pith_short_8: MHN7QCFU

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/MHN7QCFUCDJAB4WAZ6WREAXNFV \
  | 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: 61dbf808b410d200f2c0cfad1202ed2d4b498c4373fe42eb56723eadbc3fb31e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7a691effd4d42795b04ff08ac9d7ecc9e5e3d660deba1cf5c28c1cfb2d1c28d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-05T19:51:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "806294c5ed824d790e7a88d5451b798b730b8ef8846c4b0adc7cdfde0e01cfcc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.01385",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}