Pith Number

pith:2CICWAK6

pith:2026:2CICWAK63ELGHXPFDBLQG7YOX4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Affine ANEC selects the closed FRW branch for geodesically complete cosmology

Damien A. Easson, Nathan L. Burwig

arxiv:2605.18965 v1 · 2026-05-18 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2CICWAK63ELGHXPFDBLQG7YOX4}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-20T00:06:39.487384Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0902b015ed91663dde51857037f0ebf1f23ff75c299c66148749a1a0c7b40fb

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18965 · arxiv_version: 2605.18965v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18965 · pith_short_12: 2CICWAK63ELG · pith_short_16: 2CICWAK63ELGHXPF · pith_short_8: 2CICWAK6

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/2CICWAK63ELGHXPFDBLQG7YOX4 \
  | 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: d0902b015ed91663dde51857037f0ebf1f23ff75c299c66148749a1a0c7b40fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79326c39b62796e39cd16e9d90f9fa547b20ff12f1c5ee9829aaef7b3fc6baed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T18:00:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66d10efdf8a632a46b49251f4e9d63cb8e207607851f34b20b526d865f400c1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18965",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}