Pith Number

pith:QLITTDOW

pith:2017:QLITTDOWXSFAIVGWDBZ7JTW6WB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Was inflation necessary for the existence of time?

Sandra Stupar, Vlatko Vedral

arxiv:1710.04260 v1 · 2017-10-11 · quant-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QLITTDOWXSFAIVGWDBZ7JTW6WB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:01.559983Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82d1398dd6bc8a0454d61873f4cedeb053d724a68e78747839aa11fc625fe7eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.04260 · arxiv_version: 1710.04260v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.04260 · pith_short_12: QLITTDOWXSFA · pith_short_16: QLITTDOWXSFAIVGW · pith_short_8: QLITTDOW

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/QLITTDOWXSFAIVGWDBZ7JTW6WB \
  | 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: 82d1398dd6bc8a0454d61873f4cedeb053d724a68e78747839aa11fc625fe7eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "276506dbe0b7dfc04d7957fa0dde4c9a42686cffa5b8e930022acdcac8c68588",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-11T19:11:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78488a1c3264e74aa9806d8403dee4c478f28d1125d5293a555e04feb5c634d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.04260",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}