Pith Number

pith:VCLFP2RZ

pith:2001:VCLFP2RZU4IHY6YG7AUEXJ6NT6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Cosmology

Nick E. Mavromatos (King's Coll. London)

arxiv:hep-th/0111275 v1 · 2001-11-29 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCLFP2RZU4IHY6YG7AUEXJ6NT6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:11.358603Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a89657ea39a7107c7b06f8284ba7cd9f8a0709698440f3c206a9214d1b8258ba

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0111275 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0111275v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0111275 · pith_short_12: VCLFP2RZU4IH · pith_short_16: VCLFP2RZU4IHY6YG · pith_short_8: VCLFP2RZ

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/VCLFP2RZU4IHY6YG7AUEXJ6NT6 \
  | 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: a89657ea39a7107c7b06f8284ba7cd9f8a0709698440f3c206a9214d1b8258ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7b34183a73b57b57c03be43eb5d6c92285f97c876557d6c6bdc0e6032ab855b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-11-29T16:39:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e19555a070c33cc57ed183537ce00c48bfe362fea7f1f59ea3e99e1d71d9dc4b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0111275",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}