Pith Number

pith:3OUZ362K

pith:2012:3OUZ362K2KDKM4BCYDNEM4IMM2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multi-Vacuum Initial Conditions and the Arrow of Time

Claire Zukowski, Raphael Bousso

arxiv:1211.7021 v3 · 2012-11-29 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3OUZ362K2KDKM4BCYDNEM4IMM2}

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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	2026-05-18T03:04:24.272476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dba99dfb4ad286a67022c0da46710c668780d00070da8af6af9bd98bfc50a4ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.7021 · arxiv_version: 1211.7021v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.7021 · pith_short_12: 3OUZ362K2KDK · pith_short_16: 3OUZ362K2KDKM4BC · pith_short_8: 3OUZ362K

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/3OUZ362K2KDKM4BCYDNEM4IMM2 \
  | 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: dba99dfb4ad286a67022c0da46710c668780d00070da8af6af9bd98bfc50a4ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bd825c0ca910c3b982ac8a915e1f81c55aeed2145cbb4f9c90fba3cb21b8b812",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-29T19:02:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69ca2903f1dcd9f3cd5db0ba25f58c83a2a2128d6f4d603120946853c9bc8b88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.7021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}