Pith Number

pith:AF575MDI

pith:1997:AF575MDIFRWEUGDPTUUPDK64XK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evolution of a Non-Abelian Cosmic String Network

Patrick N. McGraw

arxiv:astro-ph/9706182 v3 · 1997-06-17 · astro-ph · hep-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AF575MDIFRWEUGDPTUUPDK64XK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:03:04.311861Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

017bfeb0682c6c4a186f9d28f1abdcbab78df3081b6706ba69265eaa79272578

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9706182 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9706182v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9706182 · pith_short_12: AF575MDIFRWE · pith_short_16: AF575MDIFRWEUGDP · pith_short_8: AF575MDI

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/AF575MDIFRWEUGDPTUUPDK64XK \
  | 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: 017bfeb0682c6c4a186f9d28f1abdcbab78df3081b6706ba69265eaa79272578

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c2019ce0680ec71633967f329366129b8254fd35f42289b37902e08da47058f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-06-17T23:39:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7df8facc9fe5bf0eb71749f9dba73d0f67f46aba139f34b916496e3b215ee5c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9706182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}