Pith Number

pith:TKSRC3ZN

pith:2002:TKSRC3ZN5CD33HCJYI4OHSN72X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Alternative to Inflation

Robert M. Wald, Stefan Hollands

arxiv:gr-qc/0205058 v2 · 2002-05-15 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TKSRC3ZN5CD33HCJYI4OHSN72X}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:23.712297Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9aa5116f2de887bd9c49c238e3c9bfd5e398cc575441837bd3dfee4ab47c98c7

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0205058 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0205058v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0205058 · pith_short_12: TKSRC3ZN5CD3 · pith_short_16: TKSRC3ZN5CD33HCJ · pith_short_8: TKSRC3ZN

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/TKSRC3ZN5CD33HCJYI4OHSN72X \
  | 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: 9aa5116f2de887bd9c49c238e3c9bfd5e398cc575441837bd3dfee4ab47c98c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83787616ac7b13ca30a0f98aeed67d58ff1c8ba49f00088db785841acd1bc27e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-15T15:56:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7be9df24c2537c9576b4836496ac3352f8ee04b0645ed9b5523734f20f168d69"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0205058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}