Pith Number

pith:KUUKRT7H

pith:2001:KUUKRT7HH7HIXIFNTH3QPOG2JY

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From Big Crunch to Big Bang: A Quantum String Cosmology Perspective

Jnanadeva Maharana

arxiv:gr-qc/0110120 v2 · 2001-10-29 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KUUKRT7HH7HIXIFNTH3QPOG2JY}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:17:53.085332Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5528a8cfe73fce8ba0ad99f707b8da4e04d061876b04a6cf841a3d5427bbfed9

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0110120 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0110120v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0110120 · pith_short_12: KUUKRT7HH7HI · pith_short_16: KUUKRT7HH7HIXIFN · pith_short_8: KUUKRT7H

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/KUUKRT7HH7HIXIFNTH3QPOG2JY \
  | 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: 5528a8cfe73fce8ba0ad99f707b8da4e04d061876b04a6cf841a3d5427bbfed9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b999b345fcb695c154af5951a79c6be041d60ebb601ad90190cbf97f74696a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2001-10-29T12:34:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "209e66c86b31d18daa2d0fc8b49f8c9f978370c629242c18b85dc96538c61e22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0110120",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}