Pith Number

pith:7GVVTBOF

pith:1994:7GVVTBOF6UAV5B7EUNFDNFTVCV

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Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity

Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin

arxiv:gr-qc/9411005 v1 · 1994-11-02 · gr-qc

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A matrix free action of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski volume operator of loop quantum gravity

Quantum Geometry from Area Fluctuations

A matrix free action of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski volume operator of loop quantum gravity

Indefinite probabilities in quantum spacetime: A deepening of unpredictability

Non-perturbative, background independent canonical quantum gravity in Fock representations

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Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

f9ab5985c5f5015e87e4a34a369675155fdb28058ec2f5586b4ce5cb69e87ac9

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9411005 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9411005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9411005 · pith_short_12: 7GVVTBOF6UAV · pith_short_16: 7GVVTBOF6UAV5B7E · pith_short_8: 7GVVTBOF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7GVVTBOF6UAV5B7EUNFDNFTVCV \
  | 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: f9ab5985c5f5015e87e4a34a369675155fdb28058ec2f5586b4ce5cb69e87ac9

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1994-11-02T04:51:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6039f716cdd59973d2ecbce7ad5efaeec7ca8581a306628f72510f516339447"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9411005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}