Pith Number

pith:E6FNHFFO

pith:2005:E6FNHFFOANLFD2SORT7Z4TU4YU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Matrix Big Bang

Ben Craps, Erik Verlinde, Savdeep Sethi

arxiv:hep-th/0506180 v2 · 2005-06-21 · hep-th · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E6FNHFFOANLFD2SORT7Z4TU4YU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:56:13.867989Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

278ad394ae035651ea4e8cff9e4e9cc524cfe3d97a1032f0fb4af1944c4f0bcb

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0506180 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0506180v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0506180 · pith_short_12: E6FNHFFOANLF · pith_short_16: E6FNHFFOANLFD2SO · pith_short_8: E6FNHFFO

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/E6FNHFFOANLFD2SORT7Z4TU4YU \
  | 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: 278ad394ae035651ea4e8cff9e4e9cc524cfe3d97a1032f0fb4af1944c4f0bcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80d80df5226372803b19a22b993e6f2db51387ea5b10864f15393efb88bb04e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-06-21T19:51:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0979c9942446cc8e49c8d988f23a9502782dbda9e210fe4153f1cea33d0d222f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0506180",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}