Pith Number

pith:NVT4H6UO

pith:2026:NVT4H6UOTA6GWR5RPNWAXNR35X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Wormholes as red herrings: reflection positivity and the reconstruction of unitary quantum field theories

Jacob McNamara, Zhencheng Wang

arxiv:2607.01322 v1 · 2026-07-01 · hep-th · gr-qc · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NVT4H6UOTA6GWR5RPNWAXNR35X}

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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	2026-07-03T00:16:57.398060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d67c3fa8e983c6b47b17b6c0bb63bede62e774e25f545bba0bf00be0f04e0ea

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.01322 · arxiv_version: 2607.01322v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.01322 · pith_short_12: NVT4H6UOTA6G · pith_short_16: NVT4H6UOTA6GWR5R · pith_short_8: NVT4H6UO

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/NVT4H6UOTA6GWR5RPNWAXNR35X \
  | 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: 6d67c3fa8e983c6b47b17b6c0bb63bede62e774e25f545bba0bf00be0f04e0ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73829c6ae122128b86331906da677c391b2f3018b7717ddca0ada5dd15bf53fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35e70c1ac8fa600184efd06eea2e01f85cd5234681fcea4197c58a656cdbefad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.01322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}