Pith Number

pith:BDBP2D6W

pith:2000:BDBP2D6WJOXBBEP4WVL7YAWFRZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Exposition on Inflationary Cosmology

Scott Watson

arxiv:astro-ph/0005003 v2 · 2000-04-29 · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BDBP2D6WJOXBBEP4WVL7YAWFRZ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T15:51:09.651615Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08c2fd0fd64bae1091fcb557fc02c58e6bb64bbdfb223070b34480d4301fcb51

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0005003 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0005003v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0005003 · pith_short_12: BDBP2D6WJOXB · pith_short_16: BDBP2D6WJOXBBEP4 · pith_short_8: BDBP2D6W

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/BDBP2D6WJOXBBEP4WVL7YAWFRZ \
  | 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: 08c2fd0fd64bae1091fcb557fc02c58e6bb64bbdfb223070b34480d4301fcb51

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b895f74c2e04cae947587d6c956b5abb49fb11e50971c56256a07bd884ad84b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-04-29T00:54:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c05271e2631ebbc9d6aefccc3f5aa957393be59a0648b4e2ebd36b3c45c9eedb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0005003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}