Pith Number

pith:YFAPR5XD

pith:2009:YFAPR5XDHPODYGE3OI2FLVLXYW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Predictions from Star Formation in the Multiverse

Raphael Bousso, Stefan Leichenauer

arxiv:0907.4917 v1 · 2009-07-28 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YFAPR5XDHPODYGE3OI2FLVLXYW}

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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	2026-07-04T17:27:27.600581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c140f8f6e33bdc3c189b723455d577c5ae38267462edfa1580e04f01ec2ebd8e

Aliases

arxiv: 0907.4917 · arxiv_version: 0907.4917v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0907.4917 · pith_short_12: YFAPR5XDHPOD · pith_short_16: YFAPR5XDHPODYGE3 · pith_short_8: YFAPR5XD

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/YFAPR5XDHPODYGE3OI2FLVLXYW \
  | 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: c140f8f6e33bdc3c189b723455d577c5ae38267462edfa1580e04f01ec2ebd8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2e12f339874b54b15d62768fa7c8b540e9b72b6010213fdabdf163f05d7e988",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2009-07-28T18:02:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e423e7e8b62cdd9808bdbbf29de68352a52eda9de5750df1c4c6fe2f4bc6523"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0907.4917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}