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pith:AHJSWTBX

pith:2001:AHJSWTBX3D6C66YG5NXAMEYWWV
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Inflationary spacetimes are not past-complete

Alan H. Guth, Alexander Vilenkin, Arvind Borde

arxiv:gr-qc/0110012 v2 · 2001-10-01 · gr-qc

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Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01d32b4c37d8fc2f7b06eb6e061316b54c8e3aba2081c4d8375922e7e9320af6

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0110012 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0110012v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0110012 · pith_short_12: AHJSWTBX3D6C · pith_short_16: AHJSWTBX3D6C66YG · pith_short_8: AHJSWTBX
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AHJSWTBX3D6C66YG5NXAMEYWWV \
  | 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: 01d32b4c37d8fc2f7b06eb6e061316b54c8e3aba2081c4d8375922e7e9320af6
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69bb5739356d407f1cbcd503e9568fe87c6044d3c5cca93e321c9cf82be7d4b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2001-10-01T19:11:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd07d0824639ab828320dcea38ff07ac6468073ef4290cd4a7f6ae4120585ad5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0110012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}