Pith Number

pith:5KYCAREM

pith:2002:5KYCAREMHI2UYIJSVXC5AYR7WN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Does Inflation Start at the Top of the Hill?

S.W.Hawking, Thomas Hertog

arxiv:hep-th/0204212 v1 · 2002-04-25 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KYCAREMHI2UYIJSVXC5AYR7WN}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Birth of Inflationary Universes via Wineglass Wormholes and their No-Boundary Relatives

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:34:44.381615Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eab020448c3a354c2132adc5d0623fb355ac012100e3deedbb0b5e9317b44e38

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0204212 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0204212v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0204212 · pith_short_12: 5KYCAREMHI2U · pith_short_16: 5KYCAREMHI2UYIJS · pith_short_8: 5KYCAREM

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/5KYCAREMHI2UYIJSVXC5AYR7WN \
  | 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: eab020448c3a354c2132adc5d0623fb355ac012100e3deedbb0b5e9317b44e38

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83266537014791917921ac567fb4aec5076ba6d0c539d1997c044f76b4d4252f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-04-25T00:49:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8413909ed5fdc7f709ef0f5eba8995cb3b11fbf9510795f75cc354c2a299dbf9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0204212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}