Pith Number

pith:PLGWFTKF

pith:1998:PLGWFTKF7EFL6SEIF4FZTCIO4G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inflation in Kaluza-Klein Theory: Relation between the Fine-Structure Constant and the Cosmological Constant

III, J. Richard Gott, Li-Xin Li

arxiv:astro-ph/9804311 v1 · 1998-04-28 · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PLGWFTKF7EFL6SEIF4FZTCIO4G}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:47:42.608904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7acd62cd45f90abf48882f0b99890ee190c75c7743cd4493726a5ac77c01108f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9804311 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9804311v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9804311 · pith_short_12: PLGWFTKF7EFL · pith_short_16: PLGWFTKF7EFL6SEI · pith_short_8: PLGWFTKF

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/PLGWFTKF7EFL6SEIF4FZTCIO4G \
  | 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: 7acd62cd45f90abf48882f0b99890ee190c75c7743cd4493726a5ac77c01108f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e60fc320a896e4e17566294b5bc057dc6c5105e5f67e5d80caedde9bbd2a2d08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-28T20:43:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67499f1fe214df930b44458d2ea828f76b13f7accd04fc48e3248857576b9a08"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9804311",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}