Pith Number

pith:GHEH5HJA

pith:2010:GHEH5HJACDJB4D7ENW3OFOPOW6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Enigmatic Aspects of the Early Universe: Possibility of a 'Pre-Big Bang Phase'!

(2) Christ Junior College, Bangalore, Bangalore), C Sivaram (1), Kenath Arun (2) ((1) Indian Institute of Astrophysics

arxiv:1012.5608 v1 · 2010-12-27 · physics.gen-ph · astro-ph.CO

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\pithnumber{GHEH5HJACDJB4D7ENW3OFOPOW6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:23:02.505660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

31c87e9d2010d21e0fe46db6e2b9eeb7beba7ad7dded8e6ee7a2167428819af7

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.5608 · arxiv_version: 1012.5608v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.5608 · pith_short_12: GHEH5HJACDJB · pith_short_16: GHEH5HJACDJB4D7E · pith_short_8: GHEH5HJA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GHEH5HJACDJB4D7ENW3OFOPOW6 \
  | 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: 31c87e9d2010d21e0fe46db6e2b9eeb7beba7ad7dded8e6ee7a2167428819af7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c7aa882bba03b9862dcdc22d0dd0da47c8de104e3b9a60529ba639c28abddf3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-27T12:57:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e6b6b6fb4acc85f819e4e7eefc2264760b28673165c4d9b6a717ba50f23b548"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.5608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}