Pith Number

pith:D6XCYWPJ

pith:1999:D6XCYWPJR2CAHDXPLNWWCUYRYG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The branch process of the cosmic strings

Ying Jiang, Yishi Duan

arxiv:hep-th/9910104 v1 · 1999-10-14 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D6XCYWPJR2CAHDXPLNWWCUYRYG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:34.848642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1fae2c59e98e84038eef5b6d615311c19ff1685860ace33db70325c61d5fab4e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9910104 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9910104v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9910104 · pith_short_12: D6XCYWPJR2CA · pith_short_16: D6XCYWPJR2CAHDXP · pith_short_8: D6XCYWPJ

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/D6XCYWPJR2CAHDXPLNWWCUYRYG \
  | 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: 1fae2c59e98e84038eef5b6d615311c19ff1685860ace33db70325c61d5fab4e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ac75b9c55fd7f0a216766af0b42b577a8e81bc89c2ae50e1346fe80798381a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-10-14T03:48:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52f4bca32ce7e95a5d105c207a727dae5a2f990bf726c8449397ad2d1ff38791"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9910104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}