Pith Number

pith:MKAB6ETE

pith:2011:MKAB6ETEOUHUDFK3JE24GQLJFH

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How unitary cosmology generalizes thermodynamics and solves the inflationary entropy problem

Max Tegmark (MIT)

arxiv:1108.3080 v3 · 2011-08-15 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MKAB6ETEOUHUDFK3JE24GQLJFH}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:23:02.496337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62801f1264750f41955b4935c3416929ffbc3d7eb7958f671ee0dd0181fa905d

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.3080 · arxiv_version: 1108.3080v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.3080 · pith_short_12: MKAB6ETEOUHU · pith_short_16: MKAB6ETEOUHUDFK3 · pith_short_8: MKAB6ETE

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/MKAB6ETEOUHUDFK3JE24GQLJFH \
  | 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: 62801f1264750f41955b4935c3416929ffbc3d7eb7958f671ee0dd0181fa905d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2efee5891d5daa614256030d650d4eab40cb0e8bc5b5ca3a60c93673d2e19de2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-15T20:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31f1a40065a84d2f0bccf0a9dd7c4280597ffc642aee98b52469bb575c275081"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.3080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}