Pith Number

pith:LN3OBLI3

pith:2011:LN3OBLI3STJZ7POWZZ3MSENFZS

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Mystery of the Cosmological Constant

Patrick Das Gupta

arxiv:1105.3402 v5 · 2011-05-17 · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LN3OBLI3STJZ7POWZZ3MSENFZS}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:07:54.073482Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b76e0ad1b94d39fbdd6ce76c911a5ccbd17f5e83fef40c3d9aeef8345b92873

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.3402 · arxiv_version: 1105.3402v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.3402 · pith_short_12: LN3OBLI3STJZ · pith_short_16: LN3OBLI3STJZ7POW · pith_short_8: LN3OBLI3

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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/LN3OBLI3STJZ7POWZZ3MSENFZS \
  | 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: 5b76e0ad1b94d39fbdd6ce76c911a5ccbd17f5e83fef40c3d9aeef8345b92873

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2fddd7245240c90bb3fddfc5526231ed4ecb8268bb883ef5cc717dce3f61bcee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-17T14:51:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "996ede5b878faa21035422ff2df349c56392aa43683a522cd34f34655cbdebb0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.3402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}