Pith Number

pith:USAQRSBL

pith:2013:USAQRSBLHHELDVUDMHWNRA322I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A preferred ground state for the scalar field in de Sitter space

Michel Buck, Siavash Aslanbeigi

arxiv:1306.3231 v1 · 2013-06-13 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USAQRSBLHHELDVUDMHWNRA322I}

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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	2026-05-18T01:49:22.600653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a48108c82b39c8b1d68361ecd8837ad202daaf443f18906a5b0f7bb4e5fad7c4

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.3231 · arxiv_version: 1306.3231v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.3231 · pith_short_12: USAQRSBLHHEL · pith_short_16: USAQRSBLHHELDVUD · pith_short_8: USAQRSBL

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/USAQRSBLHHELDVUDMHWNRA322I \
  | 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: a48108c82b39c8b1d68361ecd8837ad202daaf443f18906a5b0f7bb4e5fad7c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8a50c4e4cbfa5ce41c272c846cc6f4e81e4cffc48006c36d8caf2782c26a857",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-13T20:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f022bbb00e5cf5f0a732efa7577a534bb1651b3e19b400d622349178fec156ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.3231",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}