Pith Number

pith:JV3W3VMY

pith:2013:JV3W3VMYCBHESOMSYDHWL6LMSX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-singular bounce transitions in the multiverse

Alexander Vilenkin, Jaume Garriga, Jun Zhang

arxiv:1309.2847 v2 · 2013-09-11 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JV3W3VMYCBHESOMSYDHWL6LMSX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:47:43.213864Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d776dd598104e493992c0cf65f96c95f81724e7ed5c55c140c3149cd0b5b58d

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.2847 · arxiv_version: 1309.2847v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.2847 · pith_short_12: JV3W3VMYCBHE · pith_short_16: JV3W3VMYCBHESOMS · pith_short_8: JV3W3VMY

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/JV3W3VMYCBHESOMSYDHWL6LMSX \
  | 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: 4d776dd598104e493992c0cf65f96c95f81724e7ed5c55c140c3149cd0b5b58d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcb46d28e8db0ebfe6b3ad26f2cf4ea4d6409d56346d8944321fa3dc9897a65a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-11T14:54:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6999799974ebfbebf9896f828c2493a8d34c23b8ff8cd5078359227eeb3271d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.2847",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}