Pith Number

pith:2AS54MD3

pith:2020:2AS54MD3LDLWA2SE5RJ5W36YLK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lorentzian Vacuum Transitions: Open or Closed Universes?

Fernando Quevedo, Francesco Muia, Sebastian Cespedes, Senarath P. de Alwis

arxiv:2011.13936 v2 · 2020-11-27 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2AS54MD3LDLWA2SE5RJ5W36YLK}

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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	2026-07-05T03:02:42.725595Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d025de307b58d7606a44ec53db6fd85aa54da054a067c521c1863ae1bfe3dfa4

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.13936 · arxiv_version: 2011.13936v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.13936 · pith_short_12: 2AS54MD3LDLW · pith_short_16: 2AS54MD3LDLWA2SE · pith_short_8: 2AS54MD3

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/2AS54MD3LDLWA2SE5RJ5W36YLK \
  | 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: d025de307b58d7606a44ec53db6fd85aa54da054a067c521c1863ae1bfe3dfa4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db3edfc4372cd9d6f0da90ab9d991579e6dd9715dc51b358b15d5433b36fcdf8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-27T19:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85b5d25294e0057485bebd78ba0dd5042e5a35c1a89dee8829b5d38c1fd06272"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.13936",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}