Pith Number

pith:QWXGAJNI

pith:2014:QWXGAJNI4G2CBARENGYTYMD4FS

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Problem of Time and Background Independence: the Individual Facets

Edward Anderson

arxiv:1409.4117 v1 · 2014-09-14 · gr-qc

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Problem of Time and Background Independence: classical version's higher Lie Theory

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:42:53.015719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85ae6025a8e1b420822469b13c307c2c94f7f951af72b6f3cb5bbe7104652d9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.4117 · arxiv_version: 1409.4117v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.4117 · pith_short_12: QWXGAJNI4G2C · pith_short_16: QWXGAJNI4G2CBARE · pith_short_8: QWXGAJNI

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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/QWXGAJNI4G2CBARENGYTYMD4FS \
  | 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: 85ae6025a8e1b420822469b13c307c2c94f7f951af72b6f3cb5bbe7104652d9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3fbf4d99d9a6d18320c8253681d0fcd6f35d7afe14ceb3c183410e4fd1feb2b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-14T23:23:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d55fb895526ab8d71ec884b728874e969e5be5d309ac3a66c40090dce221d333"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.4117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}