Pith Number

pith:TCQORWV2

pith:2015:TCQORWV2TGX4H6SHYGODVA3JC5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitational Wave Background in the Quasi-Steady State Cosmology

J.V. Narlikar, R.G. Vishwakarma, Sayantan Auddy, S.R. Valluri, S.V. Dhurandhar

arxiv:1505.05494 v1 · 2015-05-20 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{TCQORWV2TGX4H6SHYGODVA3JC5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:03:56.158211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

98a0e8daba99afc3fa47c19c3a8369174da3fbc773562f0357354b308f2f8634

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.05494 · arxiv_version: 1505.05494v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.05494 · pith_short_12: TCQORWV2TGX4 · pith_short_16: TCQORWV2TGX4H6SH · pith_short_8: TCQORWV2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TCQORWV2TGX4H6SHYGODVA3JC5 \
  | 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: 98a0e8daba99afc3fa47c19c3a8369174da3fbc773562f0357354b308f2f8634

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "167a9f59204c7d447b30b0157c37bfe59118bc244747b40898406aa8dbe66db9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-20T19:31:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "699b29af5b6dec8db9ef36f3d287c0a1c3be1da76e77d8e4d3cb6c6165261975"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.05494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}