Pith Number

pith:VVD2TDP6

pith:2008:VVD2TDP6RL2YFQ2UOLXVN24P3H

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The Overshoot Problem and Giant Structures

Nissan Itzhaki

arxiv:0807.3216 v3 · 2008-07-21 · hep-th · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVD2TDP6RL2YFQ2UOLXVN24P3H}

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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	2026-05-18T04:16:31.049133Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad47a98dfe8af582c35472ef56eb8fd9eae1deb527266953984008333a920ef6

Aliases

arxiv: 0807.3216 · arxiv_version: 0807.3216v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0807.3216 · pith_short_12: VVD2TDP6RL2Y · pith_short_16: VVD2TDP6RL2YFQ2U · pith_short_8: VVD2TDP6

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/VVD2TDP6RL2YFQ2UOLXVN24P3H \
  | 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: ad47a98dfe8af582c35472ef56eb8fd9eae1deb527266953984008333a920ef6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f34c1ca5005917a9052b716e259944e70280ab33a9cbe5855d12d78405fc7bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2008-07-21T07:45:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4778d3319aedb71b3e368fa3acecff6d30c70ca8d3b7c2c58c9c5dc3f22ae145"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0807.3216",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}