Pith Number

pith:RN5PC4BA

pith:2010:RN5PC4BASKB2BGNNNMAUQ52UZO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The No-Boundary Measure in the Regime of Eternal Inflation

James Hartle, S.W. Hawking, Thomas Hertog

arxiv:1001.0262 v1 · 2010-01-01 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RN5PC4BASKB2BGNNNMAUQ52UZO}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:24:36.346037Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b7af170209283a099ad6b01487754cb95bba1860a94ec59324f2934aaef39c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.0262 · arxiv_version: 1001.0262v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.0262 · pith_short_12: RN5PC4BASKB2 · pith_short_16: RN5PC4BASKB2BGNN · pith_short_8: RN5PC4BA

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/RN5PC4BASKB2BGNNNMAUQ52UZO \
  | 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: 8b7af170209283a099ad6b01487754cb95bba1860a94ec59324f2934aaef39c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a592d56827961e7542686ce90a4ac71b845b7fa13795e8d0a2e7dad17fafef7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-01T22:21:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb8f678eaa10774a2d29aada8c8f695747a6291d79470def068cb3d4d741bb6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.0262",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}