Pith Number

pith:C3BEZ5IE

pith:2001:C3BEZ5IEGJAINMMEMK575B7P7M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Laudatores Temporis Acti, or Why Cosmology is Alive and Well - A Reply to Disney

Milan M. Cirkovic

arxiv:astro-ph/0107303 v1 · 2001-07-17 · astro-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C3BEZ5IEGJAINMMEMK575B7P7M}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:44.324946Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16c24cf504324086b18462bbfe87effb39fe97081350ec6b9b3d97fa1ae7ee28

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0107303 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0107303v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0107303 · pith_short_12: C3BEZ5IEGJAI · pith_short_16: C3BEZ5IEGJAINMME · pith_short_8: C3BEZ5IE

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/C3BEZ5IEGJAINMMEMK575B7P7M \
  | 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: 16c24cf504324086b18462bbfe87effb39fe97081350ec6b9b3d97fa1ae7ee28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fc76347888ce492b61d4570bdee16900332954f7d2b4e28bf2ef016309cd545",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-07-17T12:20:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea0137a39d876484412376cf7664b1b74e992306b717c038f00c89417f2b8613"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0107303",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}