Pith Number

pith:2COTX2UB

pith:2012:2COTX2UBS7UJOXS4VTUAFP6KHU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Signatures of Brane Inflation

Ashok Thillaisundaram

arxiv:1208.1042 v1 · 2012-08-05 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2COTX2UBS7UJOXS4VTUAFP6KHU}

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:20.732039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d09d3bea8197e8975e5cace802bfca3d0dd9f5b745c5b266a5a9b3ee62cf3b7a

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.1042 · arxiv_version: 1208.1042v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.1042 · pith_short_12: 2COTX2UBS7UJ · pith_short_16: 2COTX2UBS7UJOXS4 · pith_short_8: 2COTX2UB

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/2COTX2UBS7UJOXS4VTUAFP6KHU \
  | 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: d09d3bea8197e8975e5cace802bfca3d0dd9f5b745c5b266a5a9b3ee62cf3b7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d39dd6f78e99a1d667234af30e1bdbcbf4ddc2a7afa70bff5a2fc48d298eeeca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-05T19:25:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6233804bcdd36cdc458a028c12fbbd8b808483207564ba173fd3742a9402ccbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.1042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}