Pith Number

pith:F3L5XHBV

pith:1998:F3L5XHBVJ2BD3YQGJNF7DXCDD5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Vacuum Energy in a Condensate Model for Spacetime

George Chapline

arxiv:hep-th/9812129 v1 · 1998-12-16 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F3L5XHBVJ2BD3YQGJNF7DXCDD5}

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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	2026-07-04T16:10:06.429339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ed7db9c354e823de2064b4bf1dc431f4e8c005a20f693b9246d7f91720c8df3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9812129 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9812129v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9812129 · pith_short_12: F3L5XHBVJ2BD · pith_short_16: F3L5XHBVJ2BD3YQG · pith_short_8: F3L5XHBV

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/F3L5XHBVJ2BD3YQGJNF7DXCDD5 \
  | 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: 2ed7db9c354e823de2064b4bf1dc431f4e8c005a20f693b9246d7f91720c8df3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46c7ac56d781ddeedc9011cf9922fd6eb4cd9847744df1f216611442ae927e1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-16T00:38:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5794ca711e618fb82d7fc161d6a940b24e0b7df37b7d5d3cb1b92567261cd40d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9812129",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}