Pith Number

pith:O46B3KOK

pith:2004:O46B3KOKNDVBTYNEHUV2G3T4MJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

De Sitter Space With Finitely Many States: A Toy Story

Erik Verlinde, Maulik K. Parikh

arxiv:hep-th/0403140 v1 · 2004-03-12 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O46B3KOKNDVBTYNEHUV2G3T4MJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:49.872922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

773c1da9ca68ea19e1a43d2ba36e7c627059349b4c2e195771f2b4fbff13f008

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0403140 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0403140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0403140 · pith_short_12: O46B3KOKNDVB · pith_short_16: O46B3KOKNDVBTYNE · pith_short_8: O46B3KOK

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/O46B3KOKNDVBTYNEHUV2G3T4MJ \
  | 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: 773c1da9ca68ea19e1a43d2ba36e7c627059349b4c2e195771f2b4fbff13f008

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97c067e13ecdc476b5a885d5255d8004d6ea7773286511ab72b2dc82e34e3702",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-03-12T18:59:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70f65d2576b6a23a22fbaec70feecc6b9564af3fc6d4a6572cc625a38c87a58e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0403140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}