Pith Number

pith:KQEEYVFD

pith:2017:KQEEYVFD5OJHLOUSDBFF6BVQIU

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Black Holes-Hedgehogs and Strings as Defects of the Universal Vacua

B.G. Sidharth, C.R. Das, H.B. Nielsen, L.V. Laperashvili

arxiv:1703.05594 v2 · 2017-03-15 · hep-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQEEYVFD5OJHLOUSDBFF6BVQIU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:31.109461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54084c54a3eb9275ba92184a5f06b0451a8a4b33ee09ea2f7ca00a4580802aae

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05594 · arxiv_version: 1703.05594v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05594 · pith_short_12: KQEEYVFD5OJH · pith_short_16: KQEEYVFD5OJHLOUS · pith_short_8: KQEEYVFD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KQEEYVFD5OJHLOUSDBFF6BVQIU \
  | 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: 54084c54a3eb9275ba92184a5f06b0451a8a4b33ee09ea2f7ca00a4580802aae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a420c7bc5c45e97b4f2207bbad0791ff078ebd961fd4af62831e9b6f37653bad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-15T08:47:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "254a2268e4fa71300295dc589a73b81f3bd65156db19b8d4975bd59fffc80f81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05594",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}