Pith Number

pith:42DEGHBF

pith:2018:42DEGHBF4P6XYDHGR6EM2ZQ2NL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Production in the Abelian Higgs Vacuum

Ayush Saurabh, Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:1812.08299 v1 · 2018-12-20 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42DEGHBF4P6XYDHGR6EM2ZQ2NL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:46:12.640039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e686431c25e3fd7c0ce68f88cd661a6ad3c0c6990c09782763a056058a5a5c9a

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.08299 · arxiv_version: 1812.08299v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.08299 · pith_short_12: 42DEGHBF4P6X · pith_short_16: 42DEGHBF4P6XYDHG · pith_short_8: 42DEGHBF

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/42DEGHBF4P6XYDHGR6EM2ZQ2NL \
  | 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: e686431c25e3fd7c0ce68f88cd661a6ad3c0c6990c09782763a056058a5a5c9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81ed2510c9aecb9ab7b5c49ccfe6e18b886027f26eb8959e0e83fe17b16d3b09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-20T00:46:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19f7a0fdd5252e00b0f8557bcedf0a0d1ef0604219578133ec9c45e9dc9e8a23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.08299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}