Pith Number

pith:YJ3FDCWF

pith:2000:YJ3FDCWF3T22JS45O3OQENB5VZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Positive vacuum energy and the N-bound

Raphael Bousso

arxiv:hep-th/0010252 v2 · 2000-10-27 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YJ3FDCWF3T22JS45O3OQENB5VZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:21:05.089978Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c276518ac5dcf5a4cb9d76dd02343dae6259512a321e5c70a9d2aff6d9da62b0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0010252 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0010252v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0010252 · pith_short_12: YJ3FDCWF3T22 · pith_short_16: YJ3FDCWF3T22JS45 · pith_short_8: YJ3FDCWF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YJ3FDCWF3T22JS45O3OQENB5VZ \
  | 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: c276518ac5dcf5a4cb9d76dd02343dae6259512a321e5c70a9d2aff6d9da62b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cce0dfbe5dff3da32750c6de2a96e6ad2c36e659b91c3f283b619e4b49d89425",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-10-27T02:25:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63b94ccdd15a841b6133767ac5216bfbf21ee4ca76c510d26efd954ead834d2c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0010252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}