Pith Number

pith:VJZM6VEC

pith:2024:VJZM6VEC5R2XRCNB3ZFXUTLWNA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Dirac Vacuum in Discrete Spacetime

Anthony J. Short, Chaitanya Gupta

arxiv:2412.03466 v3 · 2024-12-04 · quant-ph · hep-lat · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VJZM6VEC5R2XRCNB3ZFXUTLWNA}

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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	2026-07-05T12:03:23.574266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa72cf5482ec757889a1de4b7a4d7668138ead19be7f02de7568a81486d79a3f

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.03466 · arxiv_version: 2412.03466v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.03466 · pith_short_12: VJZM6VEC5R2X · pith_short_16: VJZM6VEC5R2XRCNB · pith_short_8: VJZM6VEC

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/VJZM6VEC5R2XRCNB3ZFXUTLWNA \
  | 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: aa72cf5482ec757889a1de4b7a4d7668138ead19be7f02de7568a81486d79a3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86cf23fc341a7531045f5955dcea48bc2624861ff85b799aa46c50d2f742de91",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-04T16:55:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e08e126b18d335cca549dccb2955687d5e9068c3a66b4591af4e8de76fc3e70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.03466",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}