Pith Number

pith:WRX2Z54V

pith:2011:WRX2Z54VHH6S7CGA35QYPW4YC7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Light-like Big Bang singularities in string and matrix theories

Ben Craps, Oleg Evnin

arxiv:1103.5911 v3 · 2011-03-30 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WRX2Z54VHH6S7CGA35QYPW4YC7}

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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	2026-05-18T04:11:49.707425Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b46facf79539fd2f88c0df6187db9817e55d96892f998bb7385a00ff5f1d6b72

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.5911 · arxiv_version: 1103.5911v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.5911 · pith_short_12: WRX2Z54VHH6S · pith_short_16: WRX2Z54VHH6S7CGA · pith_short_8: WRX2Z54V

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/WRX2Z54VHH6S7CGA35QYPW4YC7 \
  | 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: b46facf79539fd2f88c0df6187db9817e55d96892f998bb7385a00ff5f1d6b72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ceaf56043cb7883d22771c5181d6e96d9a29d6e68e34ca977c7a0f2476e9c09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-30T12:53:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8477c24d0c748626e987c889935818aeff4b68583d399f8b0b499d96e35aac45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.5911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}