Pith Number

pith:OWSZ4GDK

pith:2021:OWSZ4GDKDYW2TBSCRUHE6GKGWT

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Recovering General Relativity from a Planck scale discrete theory of quantum gravity

Fay Dowker, Jeremy Butterfield

arxiv:2106.01297 v1 · 2021-06-02 · gr-qc · hep-th · physics.hist-ph

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\pithnumber{OWSZ4GDKDYW2TBSCRUHE6GKGWT}

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:45:45.673836Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

75a59e186a1e2da986428d0e4f1946b4f96137272fe6bee63a5932a64d003e77

Aliases

arxiv: 2106.01297 · arxiv_version: 2106.01297v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.01297 · pith_short_12: OWSZ4GDKDYW2 · pith_short_16: OWSZ4GDKDYW2TBSC · pith_short_8: OWSZ4GDK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OWSZ4GDKDYW2TBSCRUHE6GKGWT \
  | 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: 75a59e186a1e2da986428d0e4f1946b4f96137272fe6bee63a5932a64d003e77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28645773a24dab2867115401e099fc3fc571ee40552935237ee772fc8820b2b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2021-06-02T17:06:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b2037028135b84e85d5005c25face86e30565382a614c8125d3f891812eef7d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2106.01297",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}