Pith Number

pith:BKXQWLHA

pith:1997:BKXQWLHAHVUJVS2DVIWHVV73FY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inflation driven by causal heat flux

Megan Govender, Roy Maartens, Sunil Maharaj

arxiv:gr-qc/9710135 v1 · 1997-10-31 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BKXQWLHAHVUJVS2DVIWHVV73FY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:18.806334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0aaf0b2ce03d689acb43aa2c7ad7fb2e12c0b73b743311f7a2c82240ed3aa717

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9710135 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9710135v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9710135 · pith_short_12: BKXQWLHAHVUJ · pith_short_16: BKXQWLHAHVUJVS2D · pith_short_8: BKXQWLHA

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/BKXQWLHAHVUJVS2DVIWHVV73FY \
  | 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: 0aaf0b2ce03d689acb43aa2c7ad7fb2e12c0b73b743311f7a2c82240ed3aa717

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a20e8475ce04d8cba78b72721ed110dc182a131ef7c754d3fbb14f7187a4a18f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-31T09:00:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6c2b317544aadf72b0b56b215c731d5b3f4b3f5fd1020c9d5a5ae613d7b19eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9710135",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}