Pith Number

pith:QVP7SPIS

pith:2023:QVP7SPIS74C64BLW73G6QK7QN2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Higher-Order Gravity, Finite Action, and a Safe Beginning for the Universe

Jean-Luc Lehners, K. S. Stelle

arxiv:2312.14048 v1 · 2023-12-21 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QVP7SPIS74C64BLW73G6QK7QN2}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T07:26:59.726290Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

855ff93d12ff05ee0576fecde82bf06eadf4e4ad8f0ab452da9017b8abe5d581

Aliases

arxiv: 2312.14048 · arxiv_version: 2312.14048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.14048 · pith_short_12: QVP7SPIS74C6 · pith_short_16: QVP7SPIS74C64BLW · pith_short_8: QVP7SPIS

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/QVP7SPIS74C64BLW73G6QK7QN2 \
  | 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: 855ff93d12ff05ee0576fecde82bf06eadf4e4ad8f0ab452da9017b8abe5d581

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a16d6450069fe5aec48f414f4a72bbba66be293c9725e5f7150c6d45865dd60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2023-12-21T17:17:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66be4278a4f425f7fc414ed706c304add6b50bd179aa09c40ea45019c14f1622"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2312.14048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}