Pith Number

pith:6INWOR2P

pith:2010:6INWOR2PWZZAMBGBSL5J6UNVXR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Eternal inflation predicts that time will end

Ben Freivogel, Raphael Bousso, Stefan Leichenauer, Vladimir Rosenhaus

arxiv:1009.4698 v1 · 2010-09-23 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6INWOR2PWZZAMBGBSL5J6UNVXR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:27:56.634711Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f21b67474fb6720604c192fa9f51b5bc60ab07d2ccc4bb5e1b2013409afa3ced

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.4698 · arxiv_version: 1009.4698v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.4698 · pith_short_12: 6INWOR2PWZZA · pith_short_16: 6INWOR2PWZZAMBGB · pith_short_8: 6INWOR2P

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/6INWOR2PWZZAMBGBSL5J6UNVXR \
  | 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: f21b67474fb6720604c192fa9f51b5bc60ab07d2ccc4bb5e1b2013409afa3ced

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "115c49dfb0ecf054f997d7bc30cfa36536c9eebc1428cd9cb9115ce89b32b4aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-23T20:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e70d74370957733a447e275259426a001997ad604c6321250093ee1d8dd03002"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.4698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}