Pith Number

pith:KNWXXK6E

pith:1999:KNWXXK6EVMJ5BNEGW3O2G2QD4K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Charged Vacuum Condensate Near a Superconducting Cosmic String

Alexander Vilenkin, Inyong Cho, J.R.S.Nascimento

arxiv:hep-th/9902135 v1 · 1999-02-18 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KNWXXK6EVMJ5BNEGW3O2G2QD4K}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:00.228906Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

536d7babc4ab13d0b486b6dda36a03e28f945a1732add472b206272520bd6aea

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9902135 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9902135v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9902135 · pith_short_12: KNWXXK6EVMJ5 · pith_short_16: KNWXXK6EVMJ5BNEG · pith_short_8: KNWXXK6E

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/KNWXXK6EVMJ5BNEGW3O2G2QD4K \
  | 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: 536d7babc4ab13d0b486b6dda36a03e28f945a1732add472b206272520bd6aea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8cd4bdb04585f4fb6f67f14ddd1ba61d5ab8059bc2a3fc48176d7e546bba60e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-02-18T21:20:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ecb937a064fa03634c99066d2b71da5d5d70f25b617f24a0ebd25806bc48468b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9902135",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}