Pith Number

pith:XIVEQ23E

pith:2003:XIVEQ23EQ5Q3KR7ISASNYXH3Y3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A new recipe for causal completions

Donald Marolf, Simon F. Ross

arxiv:gr-qc/0303025 v1 · 2003-03-06 · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIVEQ23EQ5Q3KR7ISASNYXH3Y3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T16:40:10.393912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba2a486b648761b547e89024dc5cfbc6c686f3662e8c679583a9d60030e4f72b

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0303025 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0303025v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0303025 · pith_short_12: XIVEQ23EQ5Q3 · pith_short_16: XIVEQ23EQ5Q3KR7I · pith_short_8: XIVEQ23E

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/XIVEQ23EQ5Q3KR7ISASNYXH3Y3 \
  | 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: ba2a486b648761b547e89024dc5cfbc6c686f3662e8c679583a9d60030e4f72b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "540c7bb128731d7441f49ad2943d71bcd25538b573230e8b1da9f99612a6f506",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-06T16:31:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd8efa71127d6d5116ff8c6c072930e54b6b8c336c0863db269200f6ba4c095d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0303025",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}