Pith Number

pith:KBIAEPYX

pith:2001:KBIAEPYXO44MFX2IPSJJUJJ73T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Brief Comment on "The Pyrotechnic Universe"

Burt A. Ovrut, Justin Khoury, Neil Turok, Paul J. Steinhardt

arxiv:hep-th/0105212 v1 · 2001-05-22 · hep-th · astro-ph · hep-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBIAEPYXO44MFX2IPSJJUJJ73T}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T14:31:31.352100Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5050023f177738c2df487c929a253fdcdff8494ce6147442f6fd6e3e37d48e97

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0105212 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0105212v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0105212 · pith_short_12: KBIAEPYXO44M · pith_short_16: KBIAEPYXO44MFX2I · pith_short_8: KBIAEPYX

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/KBIAEPYXO44MFX2IPSJJUJJ73T \
  | 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: 5050023f177738c2df487c929a253fdcdff8494ce6147442f6fd6e3e37d48e97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4ed640a8ee8ca38cd075507f365a58665614265fd6445f4f1614d881e192b82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-05-22T00:34:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea2f22c09d6bd07adc9caaac8bfb6146aadbcc34db579a3398d1102b31657fcd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0105212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}