Pith Number

pith:AAJW4LLC

pith:1998:AAJW4LLC5OR36R72WXIHHZA27V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Creation of an Open Inflationary Universe

Andrei Linde

arxiv:gr-qc/9802038 v5 · 1998-02-17 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-ph · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AAJW4LLC5OR36R72WXIHHZA27V}

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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	2026-07-04T15:52:06.825088Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

00136e2d62eba3bf47fab5d073e41afd4dcd7566e18a560bf70d232c910e9a9a

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9802038 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9802038v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9802038 · pith_short_12: AAJW4LLC5OR3 · pith_short_16: AAJW4LLC5OR36R72 · pith_short_8: AAJW4LLC

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/AAJW4LLC5OR36R72WXIHHZA27V \
  | 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: 00136e2d62eba3bf47fab5d073e41afd4dcd7566e18a560bf70d232c910e9a9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1450545154c7bdf666e415f5c04d952cfe53ab9b24cb991cc43525aeeba9ebc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-02-17T07:45:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc62ca16751d3359059a6c573dade7ade73b11a5efbfd6d6dc7079e381a9c7eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9802038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}