Pith Number

pith:5WK2SIUJ

pith:2000:5WK2SIUJKN6Z5IVE4C5QSZWGEM

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Particle Creation in Pre-Big-Bang Cosmology: theory and observational consequences

K.E. Kunze, M. Sakellariadou, R. Durrer

arxiv:astro-ph/0010408 v3 · 2000-10-20 · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5WK2SIUJKN6Z5IVE4C5QSZWGEM}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:42:34.459050Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed95a92289537d9ea2a4e0bb0966c6231a4d808e458ca3a95d22f0296c141ceb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0010408 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0010408v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0010408 · pith_short_12: 5WK2SIUJKN6Z · pith_short_16: 5WK2SIUJKN6Z5IVE · pith_short_8: 5WK2SIUJ

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/5WK2SIUJKN6Z5IVE4C5QSZWGEM \
  | 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: ed95a92289537d9ea2a4e0bb0966c6231a4d808e458ca3a95d22f0296c141ceb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d7ff27d2b1c634ee30456414b84ad1812b2da45f88c632a3627dd1816f72764",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-10-20T09:37:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "094b807884487948dc1454d635774e5a7a77fb36cca101e8bee9eaa80d7d3e5e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0010408",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}