Pith Number

pith:D6SP23ZD

pith:2012:D6SP23ZDPPLK2MXUMEXXYJZA6L

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A Distinguished Vacuum State for a Quantum Field in a Curved Spacetime: Formalism, Features, and Cosmology

Niayesh Afshordi, Rafael D. Sorkin, Siavash Aslanbeigi

arxiv:1205.1296 v4 · 2012-05-07 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{D6SP23ZDPPLK2MXUMEXXYJZA6L}

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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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Carrollian quantum states and flat space holography

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:21:10.545644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1fa4fd6f237bd6ad32f4612f7c2720f2f714e648b0a8ff1a6f6746f7d203ecb4

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.1296 · arxiv_version: 1205.1296v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.1296 · pith_short_12: D6SP23ZDPPLK · pith_short_16: D6SP23ZDPPLK2MXU · pith_short_8: D6SP23ZD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/D6SP23ZDPPLK2MXUMEXXYJZA6L \
  | 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: 1fa4fd6f237bd6ad32f4612f7c2720f2f714e648b0a8ff1a6f6746f7d203ecb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d3ec1c408342104086418a7baf47d44126204344ef955e332469644e262eb9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-07T06:47:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc0b2382e0918ddc862211c6a6a08a2c5e787d116182dcc7fe0234233cc451e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.1296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}