Pith Number

pith:4ZCNAKYZ

pith:2006:4ZCNAKYZCI43FNVVJ5JUIREH4J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Effective Dynamics of the Matrix Big Bang

Arvind Rajaraman, Ben Craps, Savdeep Sethi

arxiv:hep-th/0601062 v3 · 2006-01-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ZCNAKYZCI43FNVVJ5JUIREH4J}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:19:55.784387Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e644d02b191239b2b6b54f53444487e25dc9c9fd340b0b2d15bd6058d6ee85a1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0601062 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0601062v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0601062 · pith_short_12: 4ZCNAKYZCI43 · pith_short_16: 4ZCNAKYZCI43FNVV · pith_short_8: 4ZCNAKYZ

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/4ZCNAKYZCI43FNVVJ5JUIREH4J \
  | 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: e644d02b191239b2b6b54f53444487e25dc9c9fd340b0b2d15bd6058d6ee85a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4167a5dc97ab151df64813b074a820165034f6dcd7c578897c73c230784c8fab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2006-01-10T20:14:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f4d1c758f214b9b4beb4a00db8d5d815b617595de286edcb8cf75266dca7207"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0601062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}