Pith Number

pith:SEI2W7GF

pith:2002:SEI2W7GF4URVIRTN477P3JF4GR

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The general-covariant and gauge-invariant theory of quantum particles in classical backgrounds

H. Nikolic

arxiv:hep-th/0202204 v2 · 2002-02-28 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SEI2W7GF4URVIRTN477P3JF4GR}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:36:11.118850Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9111ab7cc5e52354466de7fefda4bc345eda8ec99a82f7f02a108612128252c0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0202204 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0202204v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0202204 · pith_short_12: SEI2W7GF4URV · pith_short_16: SEI2W7GF4URVIRTN · pith_short_8: SEI2W7GF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SEI2W7GF4URVIRTN477P3JF4GR \
  | 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: 9111ab7cc5e52354466de7fefda4bc345eda8ec99a82f7f02a108612128252c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b292229f2ad55e967834712a36a4ea06ffa68bc26bd25e30439e62ab4dd73fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-02-28T13:53:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7f4d81000606f42ab9e60488b7651f5ae46b299b2b58a32dc0371ee6184ac70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0202204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}