Pith Number

pith:2ZDZKYLQ

pith:1996:2ZDZKYLQXWHB5F3KTLFI5PVA75

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inflationary Textures

2), (2) DAMTP, Cambridge, Neil Turok (1, Princeton University, U.K.), Yong Zhu (1) ((1) Department of Physics

arxiv:astro-ph/9612242 v3 · 1996-12-31 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ZDZKYLQXWHB5F3KTLFI5PVA75}

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:17.190601Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d647956170bd8e1e976a9aca8ebea0ff5e6fc257159e887029da68fdcf651fa8

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9612242 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9612242v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9612242 · pith_short_12: 2ZDZKYLQXWHB · pith_short_16: 2ZDZKYLQXWHB5F3K · pith_short_8: 2ZDZKYLQ

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/2ZDZKYLQXWHB5F3KTLFI5PVA75 \
  | 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: d647956170bd8e1e976a9aca8ebea0ff5e6fc257159e887029da68fdcf651fa8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c35d0436f2e109d4330f06f4d0a8c389c3effa1ee5558d23a306bea4b8f711d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-31T05:19:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "caf186f16327d501f45dd2838d272e9c15900483b2ddc5d46400b64f55ab8981"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9612242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}