Pith Number

pith:3EGHTKXB

pith:2012:3EGHTKXBD4BJF3ISYR2SRL6EJJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Alexander Vilenkin, Jaume Garriga

arxiv:1210.7540 v3 · 2012-10-29 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3EGHTKXBD4BJF3ISYR2SRL6EJJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Nonperturbative Quantum Gravity in a Closed Lorentzian Universe

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:53:36.568806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d90c79aae11f0292ed12c47528afc44a59e94e0c2596e232251873af0a84e8fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.7540 · arxiv_version: 1210.7540v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.7540 · pith_short_12: 3EGHTKXBD4BJ · pith_short_16: 3EGHTKXBD4BJF3IS · pith_short_8: 3EGHTKXB

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/3EGHTKXBD4BJF3ISYR2SRL6EJJ \
  | 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: d90c79aae11f0292ed12c47528afc44a59e94e0c2596e232251873af0a84e8fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "674e9bd2f9f124709504ad3be057bc0d5d9f0022c147accdb1a66598f1d5edda",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-29T01:28:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "874f34d023219eff225fe0eba6eb63ab94ebfbf51e92426b5989e5783a310116"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.7540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}