Pith Number

pith:B6YQ5HXL

pith:2017:B6YQ5HXLE53DMIVMBNEZRNIZ2R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Born Again Universe

David E. Kaplan, Peter W. Graham, Surjeet Rajendran

arxiv:1709.01999 v2 · 2017-09-06 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B6YQ5HXLE53DMIVMBNEZRNIZ2R}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Modave lectures on energy conditions in quantum field theory and semi-classical gravity

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:02.314816Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fb10e9eeb27763622ac0b4998b519d44ea8a8b0fcd078d8bfc80f813873d24f

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.01999 · arxiv_version: 1709.01999v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.01999 · pith_short_12: B6YQ5HXLE53D · pith_short_16: B6YQ5HXLE53DMIVM · pith_short_8: B6YQ5HXL

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/B6YQ5HXLE53DMIVMBNEZRNIZ2R \
  | 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: 0fb10e9eeb27763622ac0b4998b519d44ea8a8b0fcd078d8bfc80f813873d24f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e62b2de324bd5db944d4782d5121b55a1024da98be1ba40f2a1cd2e399cf881",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-06T20:54:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a6006658589f3268f725b3a76fe4e3a7a300564910c69a08ce334e024b7dcce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.01999",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}