Pith Number

pith:XY4ACCA6

pith:1994:XY4ACCA62CROXSPISZ4C6AJE4M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Properties of Consistent Histories

Adrian Kent, Fay Dowker

arxiv:gr-qc/9409037 v4 · 1994-09-17 · gr-qc · hep-th · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XY4ACCA62CROXSPISZ4C6AJE4M}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:10:41.960219Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be3801081ed0a2ebc9e896782f0124e33db70e6a54bb63ce42a92986ad4a6ad8

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9409037 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9409037v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9409037 · pith_short_12: XY4ACCA62CRO · pith_short_16: XY4ACCA62CROXSPI · pith_short_8: XY4ACCA6

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/XY4ACCA62CROXSPISZ4C6AJE4M \
  | 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: be3801081ed0a2ebc9e896782f0124e33db70e6a54bb63ce42a92986ad4a6ad8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1a961fbde7ade5f6c13d36f1c3df844f25a92b4c36578aca0a6c77bb6a6f1a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1994-09-17T23:23:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7c7d73b226a6060949a43bae8b25687e05400c9342cbc3d28d38e4c2eacdf62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9409037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}