Pith Number

pith:TLZPALF2

pith:2004:TLZPALF2NNNGULELUZNRWT2FE7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmology and the S-matrix

Raphael Bousso

arxiv:hep-th/0412197 v2 · 2004-12-17 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TLZPALF2NNNGULELUZNRWT2FE7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:49:08.076070Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9af2f02cba6b5a6a2c8ba65b1b4f4527d65d977f63527d42067fa82d12ca10c9

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0412197 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0412197v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0412197 · pith_short_12: TLZPALF2NNNG · pith_short_16: TLZPALF2NNNGULEL · pith_short_8: TLZPALF2

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/TLZPALF2NNNGULELUZNRWT2FE7 \
  | 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: 9af2f02cba6b5a6a2c8ba65b1b4f4527d65d977f63527d42067fa82d12ca10c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9546dd7c8c3161c8e5790439f6d75cf9e15dde9e4f76ce0c3f500c324afb0135",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-12-17T19:34:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16e88d6fe8fd75d7af0204bdcd2848f73c23f357741a0940e15b0a76f9b4d5ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0412197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}