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pith:USHSXZOB

pith:1997:USHSXZOBNRYYNCOGBOFSHSOBLA
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Recycling universe

Alexander Vilenkin, Jaume Garriga

arxiv:astro-ph/9707292 v1 · 1997-07-26 · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USHSXZOBNRYYNCOGBOFSHSOBLA}

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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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First computed 2026-07-04T16:03:08.918223Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a48f2be5c16c718689c60b8b23c9c1580d6d056653e95fbdb29f964d0d7f7075

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9707292 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9707292v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9707292 · pith_short_12: USHSXZOBNRYY · pith_short_16: USHSXZOBNRYYNCOG · pith_short_8: USHSXZOB
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/USHSXZOBNRYYNCOGBOFSHSOBLA \
  | 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: a48f2be5c16c718689c60b8b23c9c1580d6d056653e95fbdb29f964d0d7f7075
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7670527738cc00779ff6849f3645d3c543038a1b518f19f291ccfc1cb19a238e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-07-26T14:05:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "376669b8076f21384e69fd31d0cf9e5332bbf4a90e2b0d2298e0407d98e051d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9707292",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}