Pith Number

pith:WPKS2AEA

pith:1997:WPKS2AEA2T5WTNUWPXWV3QHCYS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pre-Big-Bang Inflation Requires Fine Tuning

Erick J. Weinberg, Michael S. Turner

arxiv:hep-th/9705035 v1 · 1997-05-06 · hep-th · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WPKS2AEA2T5WTNUWPXWV3QHCYS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:02.215182Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3d52d0080d4fb69b6967ded5dc0e2c4ad037f732cfa633157ea88ad4b3bac50

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9705035 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9705035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9705035 · pith_short_12: WPKS2AEA2T5W · pith_short_16: WPKS2AEA2T5WTNUW · pith_short_8: WPKS2AEA

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/WPKS2AEA2T5WTNUWPXWV3QHCYS \
  | 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: b3d52d0080d4fb69b6967ded5dc0e2c4ad037f732cfa633157ea88ad4b3bac50

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "976a1d8019e27ffcf4d537d8a80dc2a998e6eff3b5d59c361ba8c99bf9c5d0ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-06T13:58:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2dab79d93cd4013ef16b94c07779eadc99a77685c52a5c6a44c7e8d04e0e3423"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9705035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}