Pith Number

pith:DOJT4ZOT

pith:1998:DOJT4ZOTF26RW4S5I5GEU63VLS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Creation of a Universe with $\Omega \not = 1$: Singular and Non-Singular Instantons

Andrei Linde, Raphael Bousso

arxiv:gr-qc/9803068 v3 · 1998-03-19 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DOJT4ZOTF26RW4S5I5GEU63VLS}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:52:06.840946Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b933e65d32ebd1b725d474c4a7b755c822157af2687991828ab6924fbc956cb

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9803068 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9803068v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9803068 · pith_short_12: DOJT4ZOTF26R · pith_short_16: DOJT4ZOTF26RW4S5 · pith_short_8: DOJT4ZOT

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/DOJT4ZOTF26RW4S5I5GEU63VLS \
  | 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: 1b933e65d32ebd1b725d474c4a7b755c822157af2687991828ab6924fbc956cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5dcc5b2f50bc82cc6153c6bea040530cd6d41dc66abf841d97dd7cb5dcb4fefa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-03-19T00:56:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36d4512187a9dbaaa13bf4e935666037870048b7062386fe201ceaf852ff8f20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9803068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}