Pith Number

pith:A2X5A3TF

pith:1996:A2X5A3TFJJVIZAYOU3Q27RGALQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Galactic Cosmic Strings as Sources of Primary Antiprotons

Glenn D. Starkman, Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:astro-ph/9604007 v2 · 1996-04-01 · astro-ph · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A2X5A3TFJJVIZAYOU3Q27RGALQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T17:18:54.144157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06afd06e654a6a8c830ea6e1afc4c05c0550de816c593773ae57e4b412038da6

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9604007 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9604007v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9604007 · pith_short_12: A2X5A3TFJJVI · pith_short_16: A2X5A3TFJJVIZAYO · pith_short_8: A2X5A3TF

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/A2X5A3TFJJVIZAYOU3Q27RGALQ \
  | 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: 06afd06e654a6a8c830ea6e1afc4c05c0550de816c593773ae57e4b412038da6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aef921c173e12203bede29e0d3bbe05e531599c2ec68368f7e0b7d6481524d59",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-01T21:34:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "462d76c9528b57693635766145c3d0a38576b6b34a6acfcf1788231d9f512918"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9604007",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}