Pith Number

pith:4RQVDHTF

pith:1996:4RQVDHTFNLQ5263JJ4JNFIK7RB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitational radiation from monopoles connected by strings

A. Vilenkin (Tufts University), X. Martin

arxiv:gr-qc/9612008 v1 · 1996-12-02 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4RQVDHTFNLQ5263JJ4JNFIK7RB}

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:47.628502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e461519e656ae1dd7b694f12d2a15f8854079bdc2f81acbf130a0e558f1f9d26

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9612008 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9612008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9612008 · pith_short_12: 4RQVDHTFNLQ5 · pith_short_16: 4RQVDHTFNLQ5263J · pith_short_8: 4RQVDHTF

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/4RQVDHTFNLQ5263JJ4JNFIK7RB \
  | 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: e461519e656ae1dd7b694f12d2a15f8854079bdc2f81acbf130a0e558f1f9d26

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c29fcad0ab8874ea49505ae07f7bb209e1f8bdee22260c12837f5d39953cbfc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-02T23:02:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77c904418c070cb0459cfc9e46c7d9bff5717b1be8f370840a81c314bc176595"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9612008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}