Pith Number

pith:TRVXF5DZ

pith:2002:TRVXF5DZU5GMKLFOQFQJ52NBX5

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Caustics in Tachyon Matter and Other Born-Infeld Scalars

Alexei Starobinsky (Landau ITP), Gary Felder, Lev Kofman (CITA)

arxiv:hep-th/0208019 v2 · 2002-08-05 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:34:51.483566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9c6b72f479a74cc52cae81609ee9a1bf5fbd9ca77b0968c490986bb691c85eb2

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0208019 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0208019v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0208019 · pith_short_12: TRVXF5DZU5GM · pith_short_16: TRVXF5DZU5GMKLFO · pith_short_8: TRVXF5DZ

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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/TRVXF5DZU5GMKLFOQFQJ52NBX5 \
  | 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: 9c6b72f479a74cc52cae81609ee9a1bf5fbd9ca77b0968c490986bb691c85eb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ec01bbbad1fcd284c5c83bf976e041dbc5de099fd56de524710a32fb81b5ec5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-05T18:30:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90568c93fdb546e611fdfb07e034687a49fbc383d82a8325d450b185b7a4c214"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0208019",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}