Pith Number

pith:HRAVV63H

pith:2006:HRAVV63H2ZSD4UPTDDIM3RNHE5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A paradox in the global description of the multiverse

Ben Freivogel, Raphael Bousso

arxiv:hep-th/0610132 v2 · 2006-10-11 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HRAVV63H2ZSD4UPTDDIM3RNHE5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:38:26.312769Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c415afb67d6643e51f318d0cdc5a72749c83bc66ce638f0e4f0764c30d2e740

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0610132 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0610132v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0610132 · pith_short_12: HRAVV63H2ZSD · pith_short_16: HRAVV63H2ZSD4UPT · pith_short_8: HRAVV63H

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/HRAVV63H2ZSD4UPTDDIM3RNHE5 \
  | 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: 3c415afb67d6643e51f318d0cdc5a72749c83bc66ce638f0e4f0764c30d2e740

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ecb1b1696bd397a2283d929a31bbd4e79c3d2112f9c2fd6b6ecd9349ebf8ba15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2006-10-11T19:29:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6097a3d04dfe39367c6c362eddd8c3fb8acfbafef800004dc531ea5765b36364"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0610132",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}