Pith Number

pith:UMS53HUN

pith:2016:UMS53HUNKDWTQBQ5MF6YOUAY2Y

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Early Universes with Effective Discrete Time

Laurent Baulieu

arxiv:1611.03347 v2 · 2016-11-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UMS53HUNKDWTQBQ5MF6YOUAY2Y}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:04.606255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a325dd9e8d50ed38061d617d875018d60eecdefec009037fa43cde0dc6dc1d91

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.03347 · arxiv_version: 1611.03347v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.03347 · pith_short_12: UMS53HUNKDWT · pith_short_16: UMS53HUNKDWTQBQ5 · pith_short_8: UMS53HUN

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/UMS53HUNKDWTQBQ5MF6YOUAY2Y \
  | 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: a325dd9e8d50ed38061d617d875018d60eecdefec009037fa43cde0dc6dc1d91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ab7ccb0bd8ca34c0349961be774676a51416c7b8f72dfa5b2f026730c4db1f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-10T15:32:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df8131980578c0dd52d69d5e7a87c67b85ed31cddde751cae9fa7a75f97e4557"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.03347",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}