Pith Number

pith:TLA6BIPT

pith:1996:TLA6BIPTZLSNSSM4O7WHYIMBNR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pair Creation and Evolution of Black Holes During Inflation

Cambridge), Raphael Bousso, Stephen W. Hawking (DAMTP

arxiv:gr-qc/9608008 v1 · 1996-08-02 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TLA6BIPTZLSNSSM4O7WHYIMBNR}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:25.966757Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9ac1e0a1f3cae4d9499c77ec7c21816c78679cf6e2057eb3eff3a2a24b456ec6

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9608008 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9608008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9608008 · pith_short_12: TLA6BIPTZLSN · pith_short_16: TLA6BIPTZLSNSSM4 · pith_short_8: TLA6BIPT

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/TLA6BIPTZLSNSSM4O7WHYIMBNR \
  | 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: 9ac1e0a1f3cae4d9499c77ec7c21816c78679cf6e2057eb3eff3a2a24b456ec6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "22c5f8d501fa40ace4539e8d8f6037c7bb8b57278d5c9aaa043f207ce3d3e7ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-02T18:41:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7268788651f9de946e8260e89d209988eccf374aa428acb1f75e28034a66d721"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9608008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}