Pith Number

pith:VYIR62LG

pith:2013:VYIR62LGUB7NKJL6G6M4G3FZIW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Gauge?

Carlo Rovelli

arxiv:1308.5599 v2 · 2013-08-26 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYIR62LGUB7NKJL6G6M4G3FZIW}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Soft edges: the many links between soft and edge modes

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:33.855916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae111f6966a07ed5257e3799c36cb945b00e7d9153ff77bf0eb4d9440ec62b36

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.5599 · arxiv_version: 1308.5599v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.5599 · pith_short_12: VYIR62LGUB7N · pith_short_16: VYIR62LGUB7NKJL6 · pith_short_8: VYIR62LG

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/VYIR62LGUB7NKJL6G6M4G3FZIW \
  | 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: ae111f6966a07ed5257e3799c36cb945b00e7d9153ff77bf0eb4d9440ec62b36

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65934a1f766865c978f0b39dcb7219eca464526f1da301b1d9f6c6fe15b9b23c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-26T14:38:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be9e75ba3df480d2a8b6ca57b4110974157146f2e80a4bc913fec21bbc5f1e65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.5599",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}