Pith Number

pith:5ORCMJLC

pith:2026:5ORCMJLCLL323ADFZ26ZPRSWMY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Lapse in the Cosmological Constant Problem with Bulk Dynamics

Antonio Padilla, Benjamin Muntz, Justin Khoury

arxiv:2608.12460 v1 · 2026-08-12 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5ORCMJLCLL323ADFZ26ZPRSWMY}

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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	2026-08-14T00:43:25.668271Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eba22625625af7ad8065cebd97c6566638a0057a81601d8446654aa63c3dfc12

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12460 · arxiv_version: 2608.12460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12460 · pith_short_12: 5ORCMJLCLL32 · pith_short_16: 5ORCMJLCLL323ADF · pith_short_8: 5ORCMJLC

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/5ORCMJLCLL323ADFZ26ZPRSWMY \
  | 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: eba22625625af7ad8065cebd97c6566638a0057a81601d8446654aa63c3dfc12

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4508c425adb23f194352d538711ab8dd984e267d1f50f5cdede946824e01c99",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de487c5bfa2ee2de686c321365501687c76a2486ad2a8edbe1e347d6857d3aec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}