Pith Number

pith:C6CDMJOE

pith:1998:C6CDMJOEI3A65AHQQDBNI4GQRY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A New Approach to String Cosmology

Donald Marolf, Gary T. Horowitz

arxiv:hep-th/9805207 v3 · 1998-05-28 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6CDMJOEI3A65AHQQDBNI4GQRY}

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Record completeness

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:21:11.291876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17843625c446c1ee80f080c2d470d08e3f953f03d58efa01bd6ffe7390b44d6e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9805207 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9805207v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9805207 · pith_short_12: C6CDMJOEI3A6 · pith_short_16: C6CDMJOEI3A65AHQ · pith_short_8: C6CDMJOE

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/C6CDMJOEI3A65AHQQDBNI4GQRY \
  | 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: 17843625c446c1ee80f080c2d470d08e3f953f03d58efa01bd6ffe7390b44d6e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07e302bac948411b08a523c5f5f4710803a4de35d54b83557d8bccced02bc2e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-05-28T22:12:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84ba0819e8ef36e80e4dc9e2df8ef5e5cf40cf3ae01af828d8cd0b5f24832c4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9805207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}