Pith Number

pith:ATCIAJWU

pith:2011:ATCIAJWUZ3H7HFMJUS55LCMW2C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Minkowski vacua can be metastable

Alexander Vilenkin, Benjamin Shlaer, Jaume Garriga

arxiv:1109.3422 v1 · 2011-09-15 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ATCIAJWUZ3H7HFMJUS55LCMW2C}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:03.442674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04c48026d4cecff39589a4bbd58996d0bcd0469beaa0920b98b6f4a3991652f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.3422 · arxiv_version: 1109.3422v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.3422 · pith_short_12: ATCIAJWUZ3H7 · pith_short_16: ATCIAJWUZ3H7HFMJ · pith_short_8: ATCIAJWU

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/ATCIAJWUZ3H7HFMJUS55LCMW2C \
  | 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: 04c48026d4cecff39589a4bbd58996d0bcd0469beaa0920b98b6f4a3991652f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e2534fb60d8129caa6418da382dfd8bb818ade5e44b87b1091d1329803e4ce7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-15T18:48:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0dff33f27f81ce30a381517fbbbf5bb3df49d68a8b5dd73685f80bdbe185694c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.3422",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}