Pith Number

pith:LCLOUMCY

pith:2000:LCLOUMCYL7LGVXMJCWJVJRTFFN

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The big bang as a higher-dimensional shock wave

Canada (2) Dalian University of Technology, China), H. Liu (2), P. S. Wesson (1), S. S. Seahra (1) ((1) University of Waterloo

arxiv:gr-qc/0003012 v1 · 2000-03-03 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LCLOUMCYL7LGVXMJCWJVJRTFFN}

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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	2026-05-18T04:21:32.005869Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5896ea30585fd66add89159354c6652b5796e91e5ca86e99f3c53900f998f81a

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0003012 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0003012v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0003012 · pith_short_12: LCLOUMCYL7LG · pith_short_16: LCLOUMCYL7LGVXMJ · pith_short_8: LCLOUMCY

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/LCLOUMCYL7LGVXMJCWJVJRTFFN \
  | 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: 5896ea30585fd66add89159354c6652b5796e91e5ca86e99f3c53900f998f81a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "988040b7efcc7fe5ddab8c5449d76339a206a2980e97419f8af9d2f7650070a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2000-03-03T16:47:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90749db45cb893de416b3c548b665df9068f8ec285bacbb4e10b3a435aacb3ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0003012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}