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pith:IWS72CJR

pith:2004:IWS72CJRN2ESYDP4Z5CFQTNKT4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Answering a Basic Objection to Bang/Crunch Holography

Brett McInnes

arxiv:hep-th/0407189 v3 · 2004-07-21 · hep-th · astro-ph

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4 Citations open

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:32:44.100533Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45a5fd09316e892c0dfccf44584daa9f0e088695ed1670d2d2d5fb90b13a7eb0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0407189 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0407189v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0407189 · pith_short_12: IWS72CJRN2ES · pith_short_16: IWS72CJRN2ESYDP4 · pith_short_8: IWS72CJR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IWS72CJRN2ESYDP4Z5CFQTNKT4 \
  | 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: 45a5fd09316e892c0dfccf44584daa9f0e088695ed1670d2d2d5fb90b13a7eb0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3bf6c072df8ec60fb0e49d7f044e4870f1229fb2899ae9c8362c50f7e166d1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-07-21T14:03:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bd0edc61feede9f7d21efa23b9a2110776298af6c6c84eadd5713ff90ce29c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0407189",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}