Pith Number

pith:2VEPJUUJ

pith:1996:2VEPJUUJUI7MHDKFKCKEMRGHSL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Peak and end point of the relic graviton background in string cosmology

G. Veneziano, M. Gasperini, R. Brustein

arxiv:hep-th/9604084 v1 · 1996-04-16 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VEPJUUJUI7MHDKFKCKEMRGHSL}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:13:47.420710Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d548f4d289a23ec38d4550944644c792ecfe2822764e2b8e481ca340ac2444db

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9604084 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9604084v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9604084 · pith_short_12: 2VEPJUUJUI7M · pith_short_16: 2VEPJUUJUI7MHDKF · pith_short_8: 2VEPJUUJ

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/2VEPJUUJUI7MHDKFKCKEMRGHSL \
  | 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: d548f4d289a23ec38d4550944644c792ecfe2822764e2b8e481ca340ac2444db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1b217b793a580e9f752a38193a81ff0006c221f18186018169b2e3946df70c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-16T08:12:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb8071eff697f81c352ae0f8f72c40dfd035d33a66c7d35a9aa58ff5f4698ca8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9604084",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}