Pith Number

pith:JWYG4WT7

pith:2016:JWYG4WT7U5DSQAK6SB4IFCOL26

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gravitational smoothing of kinks on cosmic string loops

Jeremy M. Wachter, Ken D. Olum

arxiv:1609.01153 v4 · 2016-09-01 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWYG4WT7U5DSQAK6SB4IFCOL26}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:51.533438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4db06e5a7fa74728015e90788289cbd7a1cdd9c9465aa77c36cf2c9169870dcb

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.01153 · arxiv_version: 1609.01153v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.01153 · pith_short_12: JWYG4WT7U5DS · pith_short_16: JWYG4WT7U5DSQAK6 · pith_short_8: JWYG4WT7

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/JWYG4WT7U5DSQAK6SB4IFCOL26 \
  | 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: 4db06e5a7fa74728015e90788289cbd7a1cdd9c9465aa77c36cf2c9169870dcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a519ebecdcc281078a4f02d2d9379c513c578f1c2c58c04b060e603a39e9113",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-01T16:51:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e38b5794c98c8c0cc66c8e86d9a0b1e8272cf60aaaa6d9eeb20a08b4be27a6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.01153",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}