Pith Number

pith:ZWNHQ373

pith:2011:ZWNHQ373RAMKALI3UIVHMBXK4A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Editorial note to "The beginning of the world from the point of view of quantum theory"

Jean-Pierre Luminet

arxiv:1105.6271 v1 · 2011-05-31 · physics.hist-ph · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZWNHQ373RAMKALI3UIVHMBXK4A}

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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	2026-05-18T04:12:11.686305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd9a786ffb8818a02d1ba22a7606eae0302910b20c094fa8b873d2e8725f63c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.6271 · arxiv_version: 1105.6271v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.6271 · pith_short_12: ZWNHQ373RAMK · pith_short_16: ZWNHQ373RAMKALI3 · pith_short_8: ZWNHQ373

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/ZWNHQ373RAMKALI3UIVHMBXK4A \
  | 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: cd9a786ffb8818a02d1ba22a7606eae0302910b20c094fa8b873d2e8725f63c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f58fd928734aff722b69a94bf8ca9e15c7db2f7b523f2b6bc205ca312835705",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-31T13:30:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1dea63e91bd3b5599e088dad73e5ce9e3845b871fb82829bc89ac673dab14274"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.6271",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}