Pith Number

pith:VTJCZYRE

pith:2004:VTJCZYREOZ6KM56RR6ZAHZ4XXE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time

Jennifer Chen, Sean M. Carroll

arxiv:hep-th/0410270 v1 · 2004-10-27 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTJCZYREOZ6KM56RR6ZAHZ4XXE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:32:19.556821Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acd22ce224767ca677d18fb203e797b92b822f70be0216dc680f8413b7396fe4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0410270 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0410270v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0410270 · pith_short_12: VTJCZYREOZ6K · pith_short_16: VTJCZYREOZ6KM56R · pith_short_8: VTJCZYRE

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/VTJCZYREOZ6KM56RR6ZAHZ4XXE \
  | 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: acd22ce224767ca677d18fb203e797b92b822f70be0216dc680f8413b7396fe4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7117ba4c101ba3a95a612a7cd6b95a534f9acd22a1041e034dd4030fb862fd35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-10-27T23:45:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3a9940cc1c4ccf0fb692467c0a5bc263bde2cf6ba06fe0601b55362cd7932dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0410270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}