Pith Number

pith:RGDCEMDK

pith:1998:RGDCEMDK5F5ZAB6FIGJ3M3VO52

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Instantons and unitarity in quantum cosmology with fixed four-volume

Alan Daughton, Jorma Louko, Rafael D Sorkin

arxiv:gr-qc/9805101 v2 · 1998-05-29 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGDCEMDK5F5ZAB6FIGJ3M3VO52}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:07.652526Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

898622306ae97b9007c54193b66eaeee83d34e023836d731c7f0c0563951d782

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9805101 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9805101v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9805101 · pith_short_12: RGDCEMDK5F5Z · pith_short_16: RGDCEMDK5F5ZAB6F · pith_short_8: RGDCEMDK

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/RGDCEMDK5F5ZAB6FIGJ3M3VO52 \
  | 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: 898622306ae97b9007c54193b66eaeee83d34e023836d731c7f0c0563951d782

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "753876074330e7018a1f7ed542820e963e1cf6fc8509e83511bbe75ca42e680e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-05-29T11:22:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a433eaaddd2ef0169e8384abe5b8eabc7bdc6eb2c51c436399190f9128c31fd7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9805101",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}