Pith Number

pith:VZVFWC5S

pith:2005:VZVFWC5SSW5GJX4KKPOSZDA4KM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probabilities in the inflationary multiverse

Alexander Vilenkin, Delia Schwartz-Perlov, Jaume Garriga, Sergei Winitzki

arxiv:hep-th/0509184 v3 · 2005-09-23 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZVFWC5SSW5GJX4KKPOSZDA4KM}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Small Vacuum Energy and Tunneling in a Modified Bousso-Polchinski Model

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:22:51.369552Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae6a5b0bb295ba64df8a53dd2c8c1c533ae7abc257bcd80f9507f6c376c81eab

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0509184 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0509184v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0509184 · pith_short_12: VZVFWC5SSW5G · pith_short_16: VZVFWC5SSW5GJX4K · pith_short_8: VZVFWC5S

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/VZVFWC5SSW5GJX4KKPOSZDA4KM \
  | 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: ae6a5b0bb295ba64df8a53dd2c8c1c533ae7abc257bcd80f9507f6c376c81eab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f10989b3c913fdc514c71f089f4e34530fde60fb81bc987e3f15d784c786ae6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-23T19:45:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7568ddb2b1672c0af2b3f2d1fc7483d286954e2e9bceac681f61f5c7354e84c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0509184",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}