Pith Number

pith:YDD7UAHB

pith:2019:YDD7UAHBABLVRAZPCAYNSNPUHN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Measure for Quantum Paths, Gravity and Spacetime Microstructure

T. Padmanabhan

arxiv:1908.10872 v1 · 2019-08-28 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YDD7UAHBABLVRAZPCAYNSNPUHN}

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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	2026-07-05T00:00:28.304653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0c7fa00e1005758832f1030d935f43b4f56a08742958c90b1016b822838a919

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.10872 · arxiv_version: 1908.10872v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.10872 · pith_short_12: YDD7UAHBABLV · pith_short_16: YDD7UAHBABLVRAZP · pith_short_8: YDD7UAHB

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/YDD7UAHBABLVRAZPCAYNSNPUHN \
  | 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: c0c7fa00e1005758832f1030d935f43b4f56a08742958c90b1016b822838a919

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "141902c78c2b9e22e76ef27ad3e8c062020a4608316a0333395d1cc8e5e576f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-28T18:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7583a4438b59ed7bbe4e35fb9207570c1c19554790e3e5492c1f83c5db651bf0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.10872",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}