Pith Number

pith:V7BKFMWF

pith:1996:V7BKFMWFNBUF2LR7SUIOJ5MGSK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A New Theory of Stochastic Inflation

Andrew Matacz (University of Sydney, Australia)

arxiv:gr-qc/9604022 v3 · 1996-04-10 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V7BKFMWFNBUF2LR7SUIOJ5MGSK}

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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	2026-05-18T02:37:29.674817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afc2a2b2c568685d2e3f9510e4f5869281ee963b06ba8dd9322d0e357bae00ec

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9604022 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9604022v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9604022 · pith_short_12: V7BKFMWFNBUF · pith_short_16: V7BKFMWFNBUF2LR7 · pith_short_8: V7BKFMWF

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/V7BKFMWFNBUF2LR7SUIOJ5MGSK \
  | 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: afc2a2b2c568685d2e3f9510e4f5869281ee963b06ba8dd9322d0e357bae00ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e63da5d2bedb9e3d69b4922efea4812d9abca2b4987d58678c73e3570a72b79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-10T04:06:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4456520a3a28eecead007f4b6d4c75297553a182995eee836de5c34eec5d373a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9604022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}