Pith Number

pith:W2B4YKHR

pith:2002:W2B4YKHRQTQGDCH3TL6EPSLA5G

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Canonical Proper Time Formulation for Physical Systems

James Lindesay, Tepper Gill

arxiv:hep-th/0210045 v1 · 2002-10-04 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2B4YKHRQTQGDCH3TL6EPSLA5G}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:49.212084Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b683cc28f184e06188fb9afc47c960e9922429133d8e4ef6bc71cb1c25389025

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0210045 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0210045v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0210045 · pith_short_12: W2B4YKHRQTQG · pith_short_16: W2B4YKHRQTQGDCH3 · pith_short_8: W2B4YKHR

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/W2B4YKHRQTQGDCH3TL6EPSLA5G \
  | 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: b683cc28f184e06188fb9afc47c960e9922429133d8e4ef6bc71cb1c25389025

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f3e95f574b236a0451781b5e77da4adee0d8324aabca99eb2e807238ea0d089",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-04T15:57:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a32452eceb9e9cf3a81e8841ec9245a5e8ebb9611b899befb3ef6975aee62ec8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0210045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}