Pith Number

pith:IXBVJNJU

pith:2002:IXBVJNJUE3XSEH5I5DX5LD7CLL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Heretics of the False Vacuum: Gravitational Effects On and Of Vacuum Decay 2

T.Banks

arxiv:hep-th/0211160 v2 · 2002-11-18 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IXBVJNJUE3XSEH5I5DX5LD7CLL}

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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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1 paper in Pith

Singularities, Entropy and the Arrow of Time, {\it or} Is CRT a Gauge Symmetry in Quantum Gravity?

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:31:53.514567Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45c354b53426ef221fa8e8efd58fe25ada72cb2cb70466b809d19f8faa999838

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0211160 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0211160v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0211160 · pith_short_12: IXBVJNJUE3XS · pith_short_16: IXBVJNJUE3XSEH5I · pith_short_8: IXBVJNJU

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IXBVJNJUE3XSEH5I5DX5LD7CLL \
  | 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: 45c354b53426ef221fa8e8efd58fe25ada72cb2cb70466b809d19f8faa999838

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "379cfd2d24ca3f61355bb208dc15bdf6157ac14a243acdecc676b278dbf33650",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-11-18T15:19:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a544e5cfd885a3e5ac86f83fa698de67fecf4d20cf175d5b58f9549f044d2eb2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0211160",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}