Pith Number

pith:MM2C4TOV

pith:2000:MM2C4TOVJ6VMUGBGQJWO3KHDHJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Cosmology: The Pre-Big Bang Scenario

G. Veneziano

arxiv:hep-th/0002094 v1 · 2000-02-11 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MM2C4TOVJ6VMUGBGQJWO3KHDHJ}

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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.

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Modave lectures on energy conditions in quantum field theory and semi-classical gravity

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:38:55.599015Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63342e4dd54faaca1826826ceda8e33a68503b04e3f761e6b8f99d349cc696c5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0002094 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0002094v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0002094 · pith_short_12: MM2C4TOVJ6VM · pith_short_16: MM2C4TOVJ6VMUGBG · pith_short_8: MM2C4TOV

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/MM2C4TOVJ6VMUGBGQJWO3KHDHJ \
  | 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: 63342e4dd54faaca1826826ceda8e33a68503b04e3f761e6b8f99d349cc696c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54bebd8c0a01b1666ae72b763c68388363a83da7f09982b5d4fccecb76615ae7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-02-11T13:52:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26f030a1d383d11d3c04e7a80df06ef967c2cf91edbf55457833719a0535b537"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0002094",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}