Pith Number

pith:F7XIYAIK

pith:2001:F7XIYAIKETN6GFUX2DAJ6AT24N

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From Big Crunch to Big Bang

Burt A. Ovrut, Justin Khoury, Nathan Seiberg, Neil Turok, Paul J. Steinhardt

arxiv:hep-th/0108187 v4 · 2001-08-24 · hep-th · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F7XIYAIKETN6GFUX2DAJ6AT24N}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:49:40.693740Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fee8c010a24dbe31697d0c09f027ae3416a2426e158b811d3700c304f748ab3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0108187 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0108187v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0108187 · pith_short_12: F7XIYAIKETN6 · pith_short_16: F7XIYAIKETN6GFUX · pith_short_8: F7XIYAIK

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/F7XIYAIKETN6GFUX2DAJ6AT24N \
  | 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: 2fee8c010a24dbe31697d0c09f027ae3416a2426e158b811d3700c304f748ab3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4dc434fba53621192792972d304d02bf97497155a0e1c7a70d565b43a30b001d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-08-24T17:59:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5081af2292809fe46ee7731ca3c8e3456a642c952f04304adb07f1d1f83a1c55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0108187",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}