Pith Number

pith:4MUGNHTV

pith:2003:4MUGNHTV373JPCRG6A67BO35XK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inflation and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Australia), Charles H. Lineweaver (School of Physics, Sydney, University of New South Wales

arxiv:astro-ph/0305179 v1 · 2003-05-12 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4MUGNHTV373JPCRG6A67BO35XK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:37:00.748308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e328669e75dff6978a26f03df0bb7dbaa5c9efd8eae747e91a87db46f2dccd91

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0305179 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0305179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0305179 · pith_short_12: 4MUGNHTV373J · pith_short_16: 4MUGNHTV373JPCRG · pith_short_8: 4MUGNHTV

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/4MUGNHTV373JPCRG6A67BO35XK \
  | 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: e328669e75dff6978a26f03df0bb7dbaa5c9efd8eae747e91a87db46f2dccd91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8ba310a84bb9b26b1d3f5fb6395ee5647a34d76c520ed492d0af8ee457d703c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-05-12T06:54:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20a02a79f0c4984e4515f7391d859330380493c9c299e19c0a2ac2d2014b5576"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0305179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}