Pith Number

pith:HI6AW2UY

pith:2017:HI6AW2UYOM474Q4VCTZPVOIFYM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the initial regime of pre-big bang cosmology

M. Gasperini

arxiv:1707.05763 v3 · 2017-07-18 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HI6AW2UYOM474Q4VCTZPVOIFYM}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:51.084644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a3c0b6a987339fe439514f2fab905c315aa96c69614326a881ad865ae191184

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.05763 · arxiv_version: 1707.05763v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.05763 · pith_short_12: HI6AW2UYOM47 · pith_short_16: HI6AW2UYOM474Q4V · pith_short_8: HI6AW2UY

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/HI6AW2UYOM474Q4VCTZPVOIFYM \
  | 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: 3a3c0b6a987339fe439514f2fab905c315aa96c69614326a881ad865ae191184

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c13966e6c4f88216d2b932743c51ee7d3818a5e656fed285102add90dc4645db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-18T17:47:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "324c5eb1551b6f5f26f9e7a576556ce4ea87ee203a5bf49bdf456d46b12daf43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.05763",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}