Pith Number

pith:OSBMIUSB

pith:2017:OSBMIUSBB5UI3S5TSSNZ2CHLFE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?

S. W. Hawking, Thomas Hertog

arxiv:1707.07702 v3 · 2017-07-24 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OSBMIUSBB5UI3S5TSSNZ2CHLFE}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:21.564667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7482c452410f688dcbb3949b9d08eb290c11f9f256aa3134e52911e271bc80f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.07702 · arxiv_version: 1707.07702v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.07702 · pith_short_12: OSBMIUSBB5UI · pith_short_16: OSBMIUSBB5UI3S5T · pith_short_8: OSBMIUSB

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/OSBMIUSBB5UI3S5TSSNZ2CHLFE \
  | 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: 7482c452410f688dcbb3949b9d08eb290c11f9f256aa3134e52911e271bc80f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe65427231d0d6d98c4173ebaa7a3a0be4b298425c031ac67804f01ddf6b9368",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-24T18:15:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cae6eee79fef4071d9077688fcfc7efe68e8b848110228b1ef818f16d457b739"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.07702",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}