Pith Number

pith:V3NFL2ZZ

pith:1998:V3NFL2ZZENOFCWDMERMCIXWHY4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Smooth ``creation'' of an open universe in five dimensions

Jaume Garriga

arxiv:hep-th/9804106 v1 · 1998-04-15 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V3NFL2ZZENOFCWDMERMCIXWHY4}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:33:12.209462Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aeda55eb39235c51586c2458245ec7c7161f82ae1ca6ca24d2a28de46af5a620

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9804106 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9804106v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9804106 · pith_short_12: V3NFL2ZZENOF · pith_short_16: V3NFL2ZZENOFCWDM · pith_short_8: V3NFL2ZZ

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/V3NFL2ZZENOFCWDMERMCIXWHY4 \
  | 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: aeda55eb39235c51586c2458245ec7c7161f82ae1ca6ca24d2a28de46af5a620

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "630656df93ca4d7d2d9959f2bea0c376db500364020b2fa0f78005339f2c3912",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-15T19:27:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57ab6bf5d37997807cee8de94b74acdfd99890d6286ed08e87ed2c5cd2ed255f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9804106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}