Pith Number

pith:Y4QYPCVS

pith:2017:Y4QYPCVSYRIAVS3M6OLWAX36XD

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Reflections of the observer and the observed in quantum gravity

Dharam Vir Ahluwalia

arxiv:1706.05927 v1 · 2017-06-16 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y4QYPCVSYRIAVS3M6OLWAX36XD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:08.508301Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c721878ab2c4500acb6cf397605f7eb8d780f76f601e5bca20862c2487f1221f

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05927 · arxiv_version: 1706.05927v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05927 · pith_short_12: Y4QYPCVSYRIA · pith_short_16: Y4QYPCVSYRIAVS3M · pith_short_8: Y4QYPCVS

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/Y4QYPCVSYRIAVS3M6OLWAX36XD \
  | 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: c721878ab2c4500acb6cf397605f7eb8d780f76f601e5bca20862c2487f1221f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7f49a2d5059eea1d1681ab5c8f6fd93569fbc4adcbf6e14b85cb56f00188224",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-16T06:14:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e0f91d058e1a0e48641ed3c59fcda0d6b473d1ec99a935f2bb041ce1713ec15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05927",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}