Pith Number

pith:X6PA4F6A

pith:2010:X6PA4F6ALXARQCLTXH4BLUHS3H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polymer quantization of the free scalar field and its classical limit

Alok Laddha, Madhavan Varadarajan

arxiv:1001.3505 v1 · 2010-01-20 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X6PA4F6ALXARQCLTXH4BLUHS3H}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:28:29.688653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf9e0e17c05dc1180973b9f815d0f2d9c0ba63dc5bc69e465e7301e156dced0f

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.3505 · arxiv_version: 1001.3505v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.3505 · pith_short_12: X6PA4F6ALXAR · pith_short_16: X6PA4F6ALXARQCLT · pith_short_8: X6PA4F6A

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/X6PA4F6ALXARQCLTXH4BLUHS3H \
  | 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: bf9e0e17c05dc1180973b9f815d0f2d9c0ba63dc5bc69e465e7301e156dced0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "922423efd43c73e9c66c0c8344b6fb041fd7d62a450aada14290a52a392c520c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-20T08:23:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce47d54b2ddd22cdf966506d11aed52e9917504d0a767e342de8a42ea69457e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.3505",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}