Pith Number

pith:WFZ5TVWM

pith:2017:WFZ5TVWM4JJIPYU7ZRXPYZJDTR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantizing the Palatini action using a transverse traceless propagator

Chenguang Zhao, D. G. C. McKeon, F. T. Brandt

arxiv:1705.07891 v2 · 2017-05-20 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WFZ5TVWM4JJIPYU7ZRXPYZJDTR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:13.524728Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b173d9d6cce25287e29fcc6efc65239c4acd526284ecf1f428c0f144e20eb888

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.07891 · arxiv_version: 1705.07891v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.07891 · pith_short_12: WFZ5TVWM4JJI · pith_short_16: WFZ5TVWM4JJIPYU7 · pith_short_8: WFZ5TVWM

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/WFZ5TVWM4JJIPYU7ZRXPYZJDTR \
  | 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: b173d9d6cce25287e29fcc6efc65239c4acd526284ecf1f428c0f144e20eb888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e97345859703e601001c0a4cda66da6ff87760524ed72a7fc1fcb5cab81f98f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-20T20:16:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cc564e7082ae0a7f42e5215498fa2938531b2e0cee5bbe58b6ab2eaa98ae6f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.07891",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}