Pith Number

pith:XIIH4OX2

pith:2012:XIIH4OX2KAKG5EWW4Z3KZULQAZ

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Artificial Cosmogenesis: A New Kind of Cosmology

Clement Vidal

arxiv:1205.1407 v1 · 2012-05-07 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIIH4OX2KAKG5EWW4Z3KZULQAZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:56:11.272122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba107e3afa50146e92d6e676acd1700658c90a12337c2990fd8a65862d700326

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.1407 · arxiv_version: 1205.1407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.1407 · pith_short_12: XIIH4OX2KAKG · pith_short_16: XIIH4OX2KAKG5EWW · pith_short_8: XIIH4OX2

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/XIIH4OX2KAKG5EWW4Z3KZULQAZ \
  | 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: ba107e3afa50146e92d6e676acd1700658c90a12337c2990fd8a65862d700326

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5cbc45f64e1655d6aa7c98ab5f207afa40a2cf4894f1986c43981034f81d4f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-07T14:28:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35f46593eb542a033f767b0f26b0b796a12fcd869f0771f64fba963d01a1017d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.1407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}