Pith Number

pith:KZCO6F3J

pith:1993:KZCO6F3JHG4XRRMTS2J22DIK6J

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Topological Defects and Structure Formation

Robert H. Brandenberger (Brown University)

arxiv:astro-ph/9310041 v1 · 1993-10-24 · astro-ph · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KZCO6F3JHG4XRRMTS2J22DIK6J}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:38:05.032814Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5644ef176939b978c5939693ad0d0af27cf89ba5fb828ebca0eeaed6db84a295

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9310041 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9310041v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9310041 · pith_short_12: KZCO6F3JHG4X · pith_short_16: KZCO6F3JHG4XRRMT · pith_short_8: KZCO6F3J

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/KZCO6F3JHG4XRRMTS2J22DIK6J \
  | 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: 5644ef176939b978c5939693ad0d0af27cf89ba5fb828ebca0eeaed6db84a295

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0c2aa77179a8b6d7d932656181892222938555a4845f29111f96bb4ac40ffb5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1993-10-24T13:24:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f8c762ad4d3c491ef5eb362ea464ccbffce500fdcd1620a56a2c997dc6d28ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9310041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}