Pith Number

pith:WY52ZUA6

pith:2023:WY52ZUA65CP4MY3KGPSGIJ7ETA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Background Independent Algebra in Quantum Gravity

Edward Witten

arxiv:2308.03663 v3 · 2023-08-07 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WY52ZUA65CP4MY3KGPSGIJ7ETA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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Von Neumann Algebras in Double-Scaled SYK

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T06:53:43.160007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b63bacd01ee89fc6636a33e46427e49808c2ee7b76dbc79c54710b33e24a3f51

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.03663 · arxiv_version: 2308.03663v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.03663 · pith_short_12: WY52ZUA65CP4 · pith_short_16: WY52ZUA65CP4MY3K · pith_short_8: WY52ZUA6

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/WY52ZUA65CP4MY3KGPSGIJ7ETA \
  | 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: b63bacd01ee89fc6636a33e46427e49808c2ee7b76dbc79c54710b33e24a3f51

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2be003811f191b758cc8541f9ba7c1f304f8435ce48ee8c1e627670e5d8c7b29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-07T15:26:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed62cb91032cf62468d723be1bd552d691cfd13b608fd90ec7de295f8df66fa9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.03663",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}