Pith Number

pith:ARIUAVON

pith:1998:ARIUAVONTVHQ5OTNDCLZ6LKIOV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum field theory and time machines

S. Krasnikov

arxiv:gr-qc/9802008 v3 · 1998-02-03 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ARIUAVONTVHQ5OTNDCLZ6LKIOV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:07.710902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04514055cd9d4f0eba6d18979f2d48755ec441a0744b1023009fd49ba9e047b7

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9802008 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9802008v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9802008 · pith_short_12: ARIUAVONTVHQ · pith_short_16: ARIUAVONTVHQ5OTN · pith_short_8: ARIUAVON

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/ARIUAVONTVHQ5OTNDCLZ6LKIOV \
  | 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: 04514055cd9d4f0eba6d18979f2d48755ec441a0744b1023009fd49ba9e047b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f78e64a427d69db724c7827fd442184b7807e34f04717893c17515c322a629f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-02-03T15:28:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52b5b9f393798612d152e3fdbb355c1cf0ed69443cba36c17ab642a5e6744b42"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9802008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}