Pith Number

pith:IGQNXKPS

pith:2007:IGQNXKPS5LCXY55O7AL2JFTDQH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evolution of cosmic superstring networks: a numerical simulation

Alexander Vilenkin, Jon Urrestilla

arxiv:0712.1146 v2 · 2007-12-07 · hep-th · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IGQNXKPS5LCXY55O7AL2JFTDQH}

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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	2026-07-04T15:28:02.300142Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41a0dba9f2eac57c77aef817a4966381e4a18712f3e1df8e48d40c7e66c42828

Aliases

arxiv: 0712.1146 · arxiv_version: 0712.1146v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0712.1146 · pith_short_12: IGQNXKPS5LCX · pith_short_16: IGQNXKPS5LCXY55O · pith_short_8: IGQNXKPS

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/IGQNXKPS5LCXY55O7AL2JFTDQH \
  | 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: 41a0dba9f2eac57c77aef817a4966381e4a18712f3e1df8e48d40c7e66c42828

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a8b21cf6cbde4e6c6df1b7a3462416ac0219eae3881c91603cfc579284601e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-12-07T14:10:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c37e74cb59c9752ce9c24d486cb0ffbb790527dcc39ee917e9482d676d09222"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0712.1146",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}