Pith Number

pith:Y27QVWDI

pith:2017:Y27QVWDIXGQXH63BNVJTRQ2QKM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is the Cosmological Constant Problem Properly Posed?

Philip D. Mannheim

arxiv:1703.09286 v1 · 2017-03-27 · hep-th · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y27QVWDIXGQXH63BNVJTRQ2QKM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:05.174610Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6bf0ad868b9a173fb616d5338c350531dc1e00ce7bcba488dc9144342a1c2e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.09286 · arxiv_version: 1703.09286v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.09286 · pith_short_12: Y27QVWDIXGQX · pith_short_16: Y27QVWDIXGQXH63B · pith_short_8: Y27QVWDI

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/Y27QVWDIXGQXH63BNVJTRQ2QKM \
  | 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: c6bf0ad868b9a173fb616d5338c350531dc1e00ce7bcba488dc9144342a1c2e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c9c31aafc4cf352f071ae2a8001771b7f54f44db1d195df2e58b6c46c57a5be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-27T19:47:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4a3c24cecfcd58ddf38f97323c6300aa4de7a3f239de48c18c8315e392b847d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.09286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}