Pith Number

pith:QXS5ZBG5

pith:2001:QXS5ZBG5MSPIRA5ODRNJRCXOWQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Steady-State Eternal Inflation

Anthony Aguirre, Steven Gratton

arxiv:astro-ph/0111191 v2 · 2001-11-09 · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QXS5ZBG5MSPIRA5ODRNJRCXOWQ}

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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	2026-07-04T16:24:26.261408Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85e5dc84dd649e8883ae1c5a988aeeb42ab7d73f17c483f252005efd61c6c31f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0111191 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0111191v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0111191 · pith_short_12: QXS5ZBG5MSPI · pith_short_16: QXS5ZBG5MSPIRA5O · pith_short_8: QXS5ZBG5

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/QXS5ZBG5MSPIRA5ODRNJRCXOWQ \
  | 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: 85e5dc84dd649e8883ae1c5a988aeeb42ab7d73f17c483f252005efd61c6c31f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06ef4951f3b39f078979675775a15bac36d3f1e9aff35bec0a6c298b4282137b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-11-09T19:41:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c819d2847c35b2b5bcd2f89b2fa1e73e71466e76267eaa6b9f8ea1d6d9bc85cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0111191",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}