Pith Number

pith:OIP6T3SF

pith:1998:OIP6T3SFSCVUXFL3SQSXOT7FHN

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Lorentzian Condition in Quantum Gravity

Raphael Bousso (Stanford), Stephen Hawking (Cambridge)

arxiv:hep-th/9807148 v1 · 1998-07-20 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OIP6T3SFSCVUXFL3SQSXOT7FHN}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:35:54.900207Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

721fe9ee4590ab4b957b9425774fe53b74e3894940f01bb8e8494dfd9de56725

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807148 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807148v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807148 · pith_short_12: OIP6T3SFSCVU · pith_short_16: OIP6T3SFSCVUXFL3 · pith_short_8: OIP6T3SF

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/OIP6T3SFSCVUXFL3SQSXOT7FHN \
  | 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: 721fe9ee4590ab4b957b9425774fe53b74e3894940f01bb8e8494dfd9de56725

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ed618cd3a3a4ec0889d964e9cb4124b0dd383c870385a4a422f0380ee5d4106",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-20T23:44:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94644ddf6cc92124a09ef25d1740c923f0531dd0465a0eaa0d2be562e0ff723f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807148",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}