Pith Number

pith:NSSJZWZI

pith:2018:NSSJZWZIRL7TADBD7446NZK27T

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A finite geometric toy model of space-time as an error correcting code

Fr\'ed\'eric Holweck, P\'eter L\'evay

arxiv:1812.07242 v1 · 2018-12-18 · hep-th · math-ph · math.MP · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NSSJZWZIRL7TADBD7446NZK27T}

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4 Citations 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:47:19.524074Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ca49cdb288aff300c23ff39e6e55afccd1ef196abadbf54d1b25832c03542c2

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.07242 · arxiv_version: 1812.07242v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.07242 · pith_short_12: NSSJZWZIRL7T · pith_short_16: NSSJZWZIRL7TADBD · pith_short_8: NSSJZWZI

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/NSSJZWZIRL7TADBD7446NZK27T \
  | 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: 6ca49cdb288aff300c23ff39e6e55afccd1ef196abadbf54d1b25832c03542c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5cea223f7c4cee9eab1f88216ef3eb3e000cb10f1dd6990346b3e5b41a73976",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-18T08:54:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2eee8d35080d4110e86076cdcf2d608c68b2620da31251348fd0128f0e660934"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.07242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}