Pith Number

pith:NNTFBAAT

pith:1999:NNTFBAATXH3PFESKDWF5SPBDLA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Classical Sequential Growth Dynamics for Causal Sets

D. P. Rideout, R. D. Sorkin

arxiv:gr-qc/9904062 v3 · 1999-04-25 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\pithnumber{NNTFBAATXH3PFESKDWF5SPBDLA}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:23:00.196089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b66508013b9f6f2924a1d8bd93c23581c3c3033918eb5cadd3346a22542fd06

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9904062 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9904062v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9904062 · pith_short_12: NNTFBAATXH3P · pith_short_16: NNTFBAATXH3PFESK · pith_short_8: NNTFBAAT

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/NNTFBAATXH3PFESKDWF5SPBDLA \
  | 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: 6b66508013b9f6f2924a1d8bd93c23581c3c3033918eb5cadd3346a22542fd06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1800ea3679139b3b39b73da08fd30daa7d97993909086f17969cec22344aa24a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1999-04-25T05:11:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eac60882835dad00c50520708fe02c492bfbbb6f0f9b780f18914d82f83f8e1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9904062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}