Pith Number

pith:COXTL7LM

pith:1999:COXTL7LMLQAIOCT7DRPKO5UKWG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Loop corrections and graceful exit in string cosmology

Michele Maggiore, Riccardo Sturani, Stefano Foffa

arxiv:hep-th/9903008 v1 · 1999-02-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{COXTL7LMLQAIOCT7DRPKO5UKWG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:15.660579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

13af35fd6c5c00870a7f1c5ea7768ab1a3cdfc0ec4a0da87ddd911debcf8ce61

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9903008 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9903008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9903008 · pith_short_12: COXTL7LMLQAI · pith_short_16: COXTL7LMLQAIOCT7 · pith_short_8: COXTL7LM

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/COXTL7LMLQAIOCT7DRPKO5UKWG \
  | 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: 13af35fd6c5c00870a7f1c5ea7768ab1a3cdfc0ec4a0da87ddd911debcf8ce61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e5c266ab4b219bc14b5d116bda569b949c88bf7595db9cc7444a7b634b3156d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-02-28T17:24:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4ef887c27c0f57b5fb87b01cd5b4b8c7942c2ec30e9b393634bbeeb728de3ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9903008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}