Pith Number

pith:223WRLBQ

pith:2014:223WRLBQQKQG2QLSEJJGCTKFUK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Creation of the Universe via Ekpyrotic Instantons

Jean-Luc Lehners, Lorenzo Battarra

arxiv:1406.5896 v1 · 2014-06-23 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{223WRLBQQKQG2QLSEJJGCTKFUK}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:42:51.625292Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6b768ac3082a06d41722252614d45a289efd6641bf29b14c42be7485e09ad2e

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.5896 · arxiv_version: 1406.5896v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.5896 · pith_short_12: 223WRLBQQKQG · pith_short_16: 223WRLBQQKQG2QLS · pith_short_8: 223WRLBQ

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/223WRLBQQKQG2QLSEJJGCTKFUK \
  | 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: d6b768ac3082a06d41722252614d45a289efd6641bf29b14c42be7485e09ad2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7e8244419b81d37f9e1ca0bca7de429e75ac32a368c9cd2cd4a5580d35bae8c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-23T13:25:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4fe78704dc3d966aa6ffaf6b9e7c037f2328723735b5c6dda4b69ad19495179e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.5896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}