Pith Number

pith:6NGYVETI

pith:2020:6NGYVETIFZJ4IRD3U3QSNVA6F6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Formation of Topological Defects

George Zahariade, Mainak Mukhopadhyay, Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:2009.11480 v2 · 2020-09-24 · hep-th · cond-mat.other · hep-ph · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NGYVETIFZJ4IRD3U3QSNVA6F6}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T01:56:44.342649Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f34d8a92682e53c4447ba6e126d41e2f994b5328f82d19a6fcaa051a7179ad49

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.11480 · arxiv_version: 2009.11480v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.11480 · pith_short_12: 6NGYVETIFZJ4 · pith_short_16: 6NGYVETIFZJ4IRD3 · pith_short_8: 6NGYVETI

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/6NGYVETIFZJ4IRD3U3QSNVA6F6 \
  | 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: f34d8a92682e53c4447ba6e126d41e2f994b5328f82d19a6fcaa051a7179ad49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18f9651bcbaab302b88f4b98686f025a7d3e3ff47bc1d0838d03f5e2f3965806",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.other",
      "hep-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-24T04:20:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e746b63decd74184a7dace73e6bdaf6df2b387b57157f4b292e0416be3438125"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.11480",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}