Pith Number

pith:BXXLLHQQ

pith:2010:BXXLLHQQ3CQXQ732P674VYJIOB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Light from Cosmic Strings

Daniele A. Steer, Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:1012.1998 v1 · 2010-12-09 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BXXLLHQQ3CQXQ732P674VYJIOB}

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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	2026-05-18T04:26:12.898622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0deeb59e10d8a1787f7a7fbfcae1287060e36e93f2fe5838e448d99c3a938aa1

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.1998 · arxiv_version: 1012.1998v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.1998 · pith_short_12: BXXLLHQQ3CQX · pith_short_16: BXXLLHQQ3CQXQ732 · pith_short_8: BXXLLHQQ

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/BXXLLHQQ3CQXQ732P674VYJIOB \
  | 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: 0deeb59e10d8a1787f7a7fbfcae1287060e36e93f2fe5838e448d99c3a938aa1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eab49ff2b1c712534d5ed3b9cfd03a0f675e0ae9d9143f332fbafc25d99c5b2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-09T13:18:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8b30a3220f7b8f9dccbbacce69ccc8d99b10ec3c83157ed1f466333d3af302b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.1998",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}