Pith Number

pith:T5YOWPS5

pith:2021:T5YOWPS5UWADXFZQGUVLPPHUNC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Constraining Quantum Initial Conditions before Inflation

T. Gessey-Jones, W. J. Handley

arxiv:2104.03016 v4 · 2021-04-07 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T5YOWPS5UWADXFZQGUVLPPHUNC}

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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	2026-07-05T03:16:31.856584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f70eb3e5da5803b9730352ab7bcf468b77bfcbf0b7f84d1f8b65e4ec60fee15

Aliases

arxiv: 2104.03016 · arxiv_version: 2104.03016v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.03016 · pith_short_12: T5YOWPS5UWAD · pith_short_16: T5YOWPS5UWADXFZQ · pith_short_8: T5YOWPS5

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/T5YOWPS5UWADXFZQGUVLPPHUNC \
  | 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: 9f70eb3e5da5803b9730352ab7bcf468b77bfcbf0b7f84d1f8b65e4ec60fee15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "60596bee45c8ca6b62b6658ea96134f1f1f6afc1f007c8845a54359c097f4c85",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2021-04-07T09:42:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66a85ba8db4d284075f55c887b0a73e1627ecb765b4418e79464221808ef64ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2104.03016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}