Pith Number

pith:XEWSFZOF

pith:1998:XEWSFZOFSZ4OQX7GZASVPADB5D

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Causal Propagation of Constraints and the Canonical Form of General Relativity

James W. York, jr

arxiv:gr-qc/9807062 v1 · 1998-07-22 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XEWSFZOFSZ4OQX7GZASVPADB5D}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:41.577201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b92d22e5c59678e85fe6c825578061e8f3bff1b7c1586fa8378c19913a0f7aa3

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9807062 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9807062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9807062 · pith_short_12: XEWSFZOFSZ4O · pith_short_16: XEWSFZOFSZ4OQX7G · pith_short_8: XEWSFZOF

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/XEWSFZOFSZ4OQX7GZASVPADB5D \
  | 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: b92d22e5c59678e85fe6c825578061e8f3bff1b7c1586fa8378c19913a0f7aa3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38f79b2c8a008824f308b1faf9869f49bde8b3e17a7dd50d2256648432ed18ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-22T17:10:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6817a32aea9149e31e77654cc521eca31670b40498234d67a711f6902cd38924"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9807062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}