Pith Number

pith:NXA57ICL

pith:2015:NXA57ICLIFJZWW7ALJTPWUELGZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A brief history of the multiverse

Andrei Linde

arxiv:1512.01203 v3 · 2015-12-03 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NXA57ICLIFJZWW7ALJTPWUELGZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

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1 paper in Pith

Does Eternal Inflation Violate the Smeared Null Energy Condition?

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T08:33:12.253555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6dc1dfa04b41539b5be05a66fb508b3653aef0b6bc33b080e7b55783b10f3338

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.01203 · arxiv_version: 1512.01203v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.01203 · pith_short_12: NXA57ICLIFJZ · pith_short_16: NXA57ICLIFJZWW7A · pith_short_8: NXA57ICL

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/NXA57ICLIFJZWW7ALJTPWUELGZ \
  | 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: 6dc1dfa04b41539b5be05a66fb508b3653aef0b6bc33b080e7b55783b10f3338

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c1f69f41c4f2e700bdbaca40e39ea45e40aa11a77c66fd2687e2e4ed35934eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-03T19:31:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e050e71c5836e91f852a4bf91d4e095b2c9366a13540df5dc1f830022a58dcd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.01203",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}