Pith Number

pith:EYYOAG6B

pith:2004:EYYOAG6BVFIEYVKY3I3VOQBCQW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Birth of the Universe from the Landscape of String Theory

Archil Kobakhidze, Laura Mersini-Houghton

arxiv:hep-th/0410213 v1 · 2004-10-20 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EYYOAG6BVFIEYVKY3I3VOQBCQW}

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:27.414598Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2630e01bc1a9504c5558da3757402285900ba69fbd6f73521e1d89efb7cf4325

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0410213 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0410213v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0410213 · pith_short_12: EYYOAG6BVFIE · pith_short_16: EYYOAG6BVFIEYVKY · pith_short_8: EYYOAG6B

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/EYYOAG6BVFIEYVKY3I3VOQBCQW \
  | 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: 2630e01bc1a9504c5558da3757402285900ba69fbd6f73521e1d89efb7cf4325

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b27734721a745ec5d606e395365da6e93a0669fe756ecdefa4102b1d61c3021",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-10-20T22:47:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c908aeefa078d2f58ed20761b2e0d2bdebe8e567ff6694b31ab3f051eff7a49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0410213",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}