Pith Number

pith:MSE4BARE

pith:1992:MSE4BAREQTOFY2KK6QUKBKZPZA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Superluminary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Initial Value Problem in Cosmology

J. W. Moffat

arxiv:gr-qc/9211020 v2 · 1992-11-16 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MSE4BAREQTOFY2KK6QUKBKZPZA}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T15:29:20.346019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6489c0822484dc5c694af428a0ab2fc839b81061e6316573a57448a4b24f2f99

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9211020 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9211020v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9211020 · pith_short_12: MSE4BAREQTOF · pith_short_16: MSE4BAREQTOFY2KK · pith_short_8: MSE4BARE

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/MSE4BAREQTOFY2KK6QUKBKZPZA \
  | 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: 6489c0822484dc5c694af428a0ab2fc839b81061e6316573a57448a4b24f2f99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2d24286688ec578ec75530b600699f70500794078bc3a2656b1f5111485b0c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1992-11-16T23:07:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d86a419785b8c01f88334ba477431bba92d889dbeb78b1d7fb5213a7c24b5d66"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9211020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}