Pith Number

pith:43KOPMRB

pith:1997:43KOPMRB52BV7CCHESIYLC7JFN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic-String-Seeded Structure Formation

B. Allen, E.P.S. Shellard, J.H.P. Wu, P.P. Avelino

arxiv:astro-ph/9712008 v2 · 1997-11-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43KOPMRB52BV7CCHESIYLC7JFN}

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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	2026-07-04T15:27:09.999216Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6d4e7b221ee835f88472491858be92b5b35c88524469a60a8fa78fe51b0ab24

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712008 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712008v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712008 · pith_short_12: 43KOPMRB52BV · pith_short_16: 43KOPMRB52BV7CCH · pith_short_8: 43KOPMRB

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/43KOPMRB52BV7CCHESIYLC7JFN \
  | 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: e6d4e7b221ee835f88472491858be92b5b35c88524469a60a8fa78fe51b0ab24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9ed557365cb743e0a45f6072eae717bd7eaa56414a7812c48cc6d46e7050b50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-30T18:38:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd4f90998a4cc2a40fb2ddd3e9d593e21c08625ff4827b89c01f0d10dfe896d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}