Pith Number

pith:2SCSJPCI

pith:2001:2SCSJPCIJ677M7CERCJXJBWCTZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deconstructing de Sitter

Djordje Minic, Petr Horava, Vijay Balasubramanian

arxiv:hep-th/0103171 v2 · 2001-03-21 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2SCSJPCIJ677M7CERCJXJBWCTZ}

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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	2026-07-04T17:29:42.555103Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d48524bc484fbff67c4488937486c29e56182d737be9714cf9563b7a92db8ef5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0103171 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0103171v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0103171 · pith_short_12: 2SCSJPCIJ677 · pith_short_16: 2SCSJPCIJ677M7CE · pith_short_8: 2SCSJPCI

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/2SCSJPCIJ677M7CERCJXJBWCTZ \
  | 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: d48524bc484fbff67c4488937486c29e56182d737be9714cf9563b7a92db8ef5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f51182d27a7899a3ca1c87733cbc98ef33876d89569b32a017f4cda9df473017",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-03-21T02:44:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba0fa28ba4cd5540d1f07c2f54fbab3f237f4296dd7262c2502ec60734f779de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0103171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}