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pith:2006:7Y2VHVP3N5DMLC7J3KICAPSJXG
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Quantum Nature of the Big Bang: An Analytical and Numerical Investigation

Abhay Ashtekar, Parampreet Singh, Tomasz Pawlowski

arxiv:gr-qc/0604013 v3 · 2006-04-04 · gr-qc · hep-th

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First computed 2026-07-04T15:22:22.784557Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fe3553d5fb6f46c58be9da90203e49b9bd8e8fff01a412a33bdc73548f39d7cf

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0604013 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0604013v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0604013 · pith_short_12: 7Y2VHVP3N5DM · pith_short_16: 7Y2VHVP3N5DMLC7J · pith_short_8: 7Y2VHVP3
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7Y2VHVP3N5DMLC7J3KICAPSJXG \
  | 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: fe3553d5fb6f46c58be9da90203e49b9bd8e8fff01a412a33bdc73548f39d7cf
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f513937647f2682a6faedf9cd1e980debadbf0122e7c66a3b1721f48b3cc0668",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2006-04-04T19:03:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe49d5ad9f604e4e5e90280668922a4037509af468311a713756acec11233b14"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0604013",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}