Pith Number

pith:BKG3TDAF

pith:2015:BKG3TDAFHG5HTOXYORFZ7NCYQ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bouncing alternatives to inflation

Marc Lilley (IAP), Patrick Peter (IAP)

arxiv:1503.06578 v1 · 2015-03-23 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BKG3TDAFHG5HTOXYORFZ7NCYQ7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:40.863164Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a8db98c0539ba79baf8744b9fb45887dccec3145ff51ed1d0cca91dc058e827

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.06578 · arxiv_version: 1503.06578v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.06578 · pith_short_12: BKG3TDAFHG5H · pith_short_16: BKG3TDAFHG5HTOXY · pith_short_8: BKG3TDAF

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/BKG3TDAFHG5HTOXYORFZ7NCYQ7 \
  | 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: 0a8db98c0539ba79baf8744b9fb45887dccec3145ff51ed1d0cca91dc058e827

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ba8b8e96814fada69c458667dea60952c4b0d34d26a9748c4499c5b679b59ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-23T09:58:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69231ae825bafe836509514f9bdc00df694ebdf24bba444d19117ee898674aca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.06578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}