Pith Number

pith:6W4XKNHP

pith:1997:6W4XKNHPTPYYPZFGZKOFSZFJYQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are High Energy Cosmic Rays Magnetic Monopoles?

C.O. Escobar, R.A. V\'azquez

arxiv:astro-ph/9709148 v1 · 1997-09-15 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6W4XKNHPTPYYPZFGZKOFSZFJYQ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:34:29.099853Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5b97534ef9bf187e4a6ca9c5964a9c4046d9506b0e4a8565d6d6d91ac2c8f17

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9709148 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9709148v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9709148 · pith_short_12: 6W4XKNHPTPYY · pith_short_16: 6W4XKNHPTPYYPZFG · pith_short_8: 6W4XKNHP

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/6W4XKNHPTPYYPZFGZKOFSZFJYQ \
  | 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: f5b97534ef9bf187e4a6ca9c5964a9c4046d9506b0e4a8565d6d6d91ac2c8f17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7103ed1da5ff21c594cfdef45813944e1675c9b3626d7ef6e6137cda9e3da9ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-09-15T23:24:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c3bb711b6c6bd0eddda984f9254b66317185ffa477c25c6d6abff8533ac6ca43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9709148",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}