Pith Number

pith:523N6E6A

pith:1996:523N6E6AU3ERXBUWQNA5NKY6JS

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Cosmology in a String-Dominated Universe

David Spergel, Ue-Li Pen

arxiv:astro-ph/9611198 v1 · 1996-11-24 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{523N6E6AU3ERXBUWQNA5NKY6JS}

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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.

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Cosmic Strings as Dynamical Dark Energy: Novel Constraints

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:00:19.445508Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eeb6df13c0a6c91b86968341d6ab1e4ca17e2209a0a1290ad5a1ad03bb6b9b9b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9611198 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9611198v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9611198 · pith_short_12: 523N6E6AU3ER · pith_short_16: 523N6E6AU3ERXBUW · pith_short_8: 523N6E6A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/523N6E6AU3ERXBUWQNA5NKY6JS \
  | 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: eeb6df13c0a6c91b86968341d6ab1e4ca17e2209a0a1290ad5a1ad03bb6b9b9b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7aaf80b881d0485cd9bb134d12de6b080c1cd5ee6fc875d585bcc8da586945c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-24T17:35:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a7ecb8f5f0af619c26bf5222f91e5a2afef8db326feae5a3e977b56ed7c6e2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9611198",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}