Pith Number

pith:MWVHNTAG

pith:2018:MWVHNTAGIM7O3MMSWIAB6ML67F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What is the No-Boundary Wave Function of the Universe?

James B. Hartle, Jonathan J. Halliwell, Thomas Hertog

arxiv:1812.01760 v1 · 2018-12-05 · hep-th · gr-qc · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MWVHNTAGIM7O3MMSWIAB6ML67F}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Quantum Liouville Cosmology

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:52:39.350686Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65aa76cc06433eedb192b2001f317ef96088452ff655b00c0aa8b1cc5cd17516

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.01760 · arxiv_version: 1812.01760v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.01760 · pith_short_12: MWVHNTAGIM7O · pith_short_16: MWVHNTAGIM7O3MMS · pith_short_8: MWVHNTAG

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/MWVHNTAGIM7O3MMSWIAB6ML67F \
  | 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: 65aa76cc06433eedb192b2001f317ef96088452ff655b00c0aa8b1cc5cd17516

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "efee85d4ddc8f1cbdde2cdcc80453697ab1256dd84af6824e6853ff9e58c564f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-05T00:23:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "762368da681b1b7a8dc5955477eb5065f22d54d2ea2612357f18e24517316034"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.01760",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}