Pith Number

pith:5UTMRQKK

pith:1996:5UTMRQKKYXTZXRQLCPBSB6IEQG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a non-singular pre-big bang cosmology

G. Veneziano, M. Gasperini, M. Maggiore

arxiv:hep-th/9611039 v2 · 1996-11-06 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5UTMRQKKYXTZXRQLCPBSB6IEQG}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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Strong coupling and instabilities in singularity-free inflation from an infinite sum of curvature corrections

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:21:45.248685Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed26c8c14ac5e79bc60b13c320f90481ad1f7e7feb13ccdcfc22174a93c85f6b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9611039 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9611039v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9611039 · pith_short_12: 5UTMRQKKYXTZ · pith_short_16: 5UTMRQKKYXTZXRQL · pith_short_8: 5UTMRQKK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5UTMRQKKYXTZXRQLCPBSB6IEQG \
  | 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: ed26c8c14ac5e79bc60b13c320f90481ad1f7e7feb13ccdcfc22174a93c85f6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae328e2708105310ec14270e794780694a6f17213c744356369a921781dc8f29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-06T19:19:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95556977e097ac9179f22c41027f257af7da2653294b9e0d4fa41acd6de4810b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9611039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}