Pith Number

pith:4MXALXMP

pith:2001:4MXALXMPJQZ2OZ4YKLVCNVMJIB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Holographic Cosmology

T. Banks, W. Fischler

arxiv:hep-th/0111142 v1 · 2001-11-15 · hep-th · astro-ph · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4MXALXMPJQZ2OZ4YKLVCNVMJIB}

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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	2026-07-04T14:31:43.004562Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e32e05dd8f4c33a7679852ea26d58940484d7a7c04dde23cb752d9c7f2189740

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0111142 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0111142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0111142 · pith_short_12: 4MXALXMPJQZ2 · pith_short_16: 4MXALXMPJQZ2OZ4Y · pith_short_8: 4MXALXMP

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/4MXALXMPJQZ2OZ4YKLVCNVMJIB \
  | 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: e32e05dd8f4c33a7679852ea26d58940484d7a7c04dde23cb752d9c7f2189740

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfa64b65153309fcac78e8269ecdd8ca862ea52d665205752d1b30736b9cc0df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-11-15T16:59:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ff1caaa540d728a164eefeda41ce42663d8f11743ad9a5d3450abaf7f053a2a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0111142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}