Pith Number

pith:QV4EWRP3

pith:2019:QV4EWRP3YP2FVCXYEJ2UP755BF

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Nambu variant of Local Resolution of Problem of Time and Background Independence

Edward Anderson

arxiv:1908.03168 v1 · 2019-08-08 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QV4EWRP3YP2FVCXYEJ2UP755BF}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T23:52:26.789579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85784b45fbc3f45a8af8227547ffbd0962412788a7f5240079090a90b1f36451

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.03168 · arxiv_version: 1908.03168v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.03168 · pith_short_12: QV4EWRP3YP2F · pith_short_16: QV4EWRP3YP2FVCXY · pith_short_8: QV4EWRP3

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/QV4EWRP3YP2FVCXYEJ2UP755BF \
  | 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: 85784b45fbc3f45a8af8227547ffbd0962412788a7f5240079090a90b1f36451

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eed6b21f9b07223be813ef5d93df57b3030574b878c66df3009a5c88b25db364",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-08T16:58:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36e691d0910fa2b6a28191b913dc1d8debbb6f8823cb8f696d05d515416fb95f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.03168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}