Pith Number

pith:NKVPLUSN

pith:1998:NKVPLUSNJRD6ASO7HK7WUQSEAJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inflation, Singular Instantons and Eleven Dimensional Cosmology

Harvey S. Reall, S. W. Hawking

arxiv:hep-th/9807100 v2 · 1998-07-14 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NKVPLUSNJRD6ASO7HK7WUQSEAJ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:01.568849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6aaaf5d24d4c47e049df3abf6a4244026bf832ad1d56a74bd613c351a3dcb4da

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807100 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807100v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807100 · pith_short_12: NKVPLUSNJRD6 · pith_short_16: NKVPLUSNJRD6ASO7 · pith_short_8: NKVPLUSN

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/NKVPLUSNJRD6ASO7HK7WUQSEAJ \
  | 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: 6aaaf5d24d4c47e049df3abf6a4244026bf832ad1d56a74bd613c351a3dcb4da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e971e7798e221d3e94e53885959c64f2586b66559934bb302d1cdb89d17e219b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-14T21:03:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ceafc0d07ee24bda6d1de0fa41807459019ffe9e6254629cf3ecb4447de146a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807100",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}