Pith Number

pith:ECDNTWTC

pith:2007:ECDNTWTCHD5VFW3U6TWJNVKBH5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Eternal Inflation, past and future

Anthony Aguirre

arxiv:0712.0571 v1 · 2007-12-04 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ECDNTWTCHD5VFW3U6TWJNVKBH5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Evidence for renormalized instantons in real-time simulations of vacuum decay

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:06:03.322010Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2086d9da6238fb52db74f4ec96d5413f72199609e084d05e4fca89c80bcfab68

Aliases

arxiv: 0712.0571 · arxiv_version: 0712.0571v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0712.0571 · pith_short_12: ECDNTWTCHD5V · pith_short_16: ECDNTWTCHD5VFW3U · pith_short_8: ECDNTWTC

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/ECDNTWTCHD5VFW3U6TWJNVKBH5 \
  | 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: 2086d9da6238fb52db74f4ec96d5413f72199609e084d05e4fca89c80bcfab68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "acedca868f21437c56c2c6c33288426c8a0e6fa0f8a299788c559c1ceba011f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-12-04T17:13:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94cbf56581eb1ace1672aeeaa29b5c0e5d8d926bbd4080f283ed59ec7d0e368b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0712.0571",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}