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pith:AHW62USC

pith:1993:AHW62USCRLBRU6ZRHDZAT7D6CI
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Eternal inflation and the initial singularity

Alexander Vilenkin, Arvind Borde

arxiv:gr-qc/9312022 v1 · 1993-12-15 · gr-qc

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First computed 2026-07-04T17:25:35.604349Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01eded52428ac31a7b3138f209fc7e122217caf15d537a6c299d73bc6e046924

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9312022 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9312022v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9312022 · pith_short_12: AHW62USCRLBR · pith_short_16: AHW62USCRLBRU6ZR · pith_short_8: AHW62USC
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AHW62USCRLBRU6ZRHDZAT7D6CI \
  | 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: 01eded52428ac31a7b3138f209fc7e122217caf15d537a6c299d73bc6e046924
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed8c90b6cf055ed00ce834e70bc94b78100d6f7c56487eff63ad41055459e4e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1993-12-15T16:41:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d8d20a10b27a134201d1602b48663b897e4c27d63c1d47f26112d38b8c2803d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9312022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}