Pith Number

pith:3ZIDCGL7

pith:2007:3ZIDCGL7CJ4JAY2MTBR2WH2A4R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Cosmological Slingshot Scenario: Myths and Facts

Alex Kehagias (Natl. Tech. U., Athens), Cristiano Germani (SISSA, INFN), Inst. Natl. Phys.), Nicolas Grandi (La Plata

arxiv:0706.0023 v4 · 2007-06-01 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3ZIDCGL7CJ4JAY2MTBR2WH2A4R}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:28.059954Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de5031197f127890634c9863ab1f40e453ed65e3a954517d1743cc2063acebb7

Aliases

arxiv: 0706.0023 · arxiv_version: 0706.0023v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0706.0023 · pith_short_12: 3ZIDCGL7CJ4J · pith_short_16: 3ZIDCGL7CJ4JAY2M · pith_short_8: 3ZIDCGL7

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/3ZIDCGL7CJ4JAY2MTBR2WH2A4R \
  | 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: de5031197f127890634c9863ab1f40e453ed65e3a954517d1743cc2063acebb7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08de6bdc08ed65b10010dbfda9971ed2b4888c21a2a5a77c5f5b753d041e955f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-06-01T15:57:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "673e2f3b28cc621d9c002224556ca6e988338bd50efce908d6fd45ed5550343e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0706.0023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}