Pith Number

pith:AIEN4W23

pith:2001:AIEN4W23JMRZ5FUJ3VFDKAGIPZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Creation of the Universe out of Nothing

Luis Augusto Trevisan, Marcelo Samuel Berman

arxiv:gr-qc/0104060 v5 · 2001-04-18 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AIEN4W23JMRZ5FUJ3VFDKAGIPZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:53.446462Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0208de5b5b4b239e9689dd4a3500c87e44c88d3383dc45720b57cd5e8fc4e763

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0104060 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0104060v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0104060 · pith_short_12: AIEN4W23JMRZ · pith_short_16: AIEN4W23JMRZ5FUJ · pith_short_8: AIEN4W23

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/AIEN4W23JMRZ5FUJ3VFDKAGIPZ \
  | 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: 0208de5b5b4b239e9689dd4a3500c87e44c88d3383dc45720b57cd5e8fc4e763

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3465421caae1bb82d070766a5b47484aa4dca0d75bf6804b171e1d7f21b0fad3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2001-04-18T15:17:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3df7449151f0a60f2ba450c178b3ba1477c239cf69f36a96887297943ceaa839"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0104060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}