Pith Number

pith:BEFUQTYW

pith:2018:BEFUQTYWZIMIWIETOPMQOIGU55

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stability and the Gauge Problem in Non-Perturbative Cosmology

Anna Ijjas, Frans Pretorius, Paul J. Steinhardt

arxiv:1809.07010 v1 · 2018-09-19 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BEFUQTYWZIMIWIETOPMQOIGU55}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:56:52.901568Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

090b484f16ca188b209373d90720d4ef4980860ac730f45ba3bdb5375d66c5a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.07010 · arxiv_version: 1809.07010v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.07010 · pith_short_12: BEFUQTYWZIMI · pith_short_16: BEFUQTYWZIMIWIET · pith_short_8: BEFUQTYW

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/BEFUQTYWZIMIWIETOPMQOIGU55 \
  | 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: 090b484f16ca188b209373d90720d4ef4980860ac730f45ba3bdb5375d66c5a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a069a2aec08972eb995ab7cf6d94da2e4c5125f5b38ad0126ea03b3f47acfa5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-19T04:27:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa6b29fd2aab63c48c6ab3c4b1c6cb5917b9e42b2a6c92bc9bb0cf6b1d35108d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.07010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}