Pith Number

pith:ITZMZQZR

pith:2016:ITZMZQZRN6W42X2OOKGTT7XRPH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Strings Stabilized by Quantum Fluctuations

H. Weigel

arxiv:1609.08392 v1 · 2016-09-27 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ITZMZQZRN6W42X2OOKGTT7XRPH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:33.581105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44f2ccc3316fadcd5f4e728d39fef179d4f77ee8db41313051a6065daaa3b318

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.08392 · arxiv_version: 1609.08392v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.08392 · pith_short_12: ITZMZQZRN6W4 · pith_short_16: ITZMZQZRN6W42X2O · pith_short_8: ITZMZQZR

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/ITZMZQZRN6W42X2OOKGTT7XRPH \
  | 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: 44f2ccc3316fadcd5f4e728d39fef179d4f77ee8db41313051a6065daaa3b318

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "493b6faa7532fb75025d4bcd36549c3ce499b783904cb72c284ef1bcd9544637",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-27T13:04:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a9be5526ce3ae153c044a135cf2fb79a887d90ec0f50008dca1eeef27dedefd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.08392",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}