Pith Number

pith:UD3O5KYM

pith:2014:UD3O5KYMOITDV5DBNUIPMYDT5I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spontaneous creation of the universe from nothing

Dongfeng Gao, Dongshan He, Qing-yu Cai

arxiv:1404.1207 v1 · 2014-04-04 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UD3O5KYMOITDV5DBNUIPMYDT5I}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Resolution of the cosmological constant problem by unimodular gravity and signature reversal symmetry

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:54:53.950189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a0f6eeab0c72263af4616d10f66073ea05cdb1e0f860a6edce6c1f67d507b90f

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.1207 · arxiv_version: 1404.1207v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.1207 · pith_short_12: UD3O5KYMOITD · pith_short_16: UD3O5KYMOITDV5DB · pith_short_8: UD3O5KYM

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/UD3O5KYMOITDV5DBNUIPMYDT5I \
  | 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: a0f6eeab0c72263af4616d10f66073ea05cdb1e0f860a6edce6c1f67d507b90f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a00063314ad43d732c782825cf3c99ec9a1c96ad3f4d74ea53177699ea9a32b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-04T10:09:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b2a1b3b33a002b584172fa9b5a19b4d77d3749a90d709e678c3cba404d336f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.1207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}