Pith Number

pith:EKT6FKVC

pith:2014:EKT6FKVC4KCMFK2BGRFWWRVRTC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decay of the Cosmic Vacuum Energy

John D. Barrow, Timothy Clifton

arxiv:1412.5465 v3 · 2014-12-17 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EKT6FKVC4KCMFK2BGRFWWRVRTC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:04.327413Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22a7e2aaa2e284c2ab41344b6b46b19896885ff5eeac792b5fa3177956f48d94

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.5465 · arxiv_version: 1412.5465v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.5465 · pith_short_12: EKT6FKVC4KCM · pith_short_16: EKT6FKVC4KCMFK2B · pith_short_8: EKT6FKVC

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/EKT6FKVC4KCMFK2BGRFWWRVRTC \
  | 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: 22a7e2aaa2e284c2ab41344b6b46b19896885ff5eeac792b5fa3177956f48d94

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "557ff40eac2ccf2dad4525bdc5baa49b3bbd809ddb63633ad1298754f3e70342",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-17T16:26:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2dcf95ac8828587582becebaeaeef45f0697f1973af5149570b6d28cb2816949"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.5465",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}