Pith Number

pith:L6BGXZZG

pith:1999:L6BGXZZGRY3O2DW4CIV4ZPXRI4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Formation, Interaction and Observation of Topological Defects

Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:astro-ph/9903362 v1 · 1999-03-23 · astro-ph · cond-mat · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L6BGXZZGRY3O2DW4CIV4ZPXRI4}

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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	2026-07-04T14:16:37.778100Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f826be7268e36ed0edc122bccbef14723c9b0b46e5b1d5cf92aad589d8ae061

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9903362 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9903362v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9903362 · pith_short_12: L6BGXZZGRY3O · pith_short_16: L6BGXZZGRY3O2DW4 · pith_short_8: L6BGXZZG

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/L6BGXZZGRY3O2DW4CIV4ZPXRI4 \
  | 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: 5f826be7268e36ed0edc122bccbef14723c9b0b46e5b1d5cf92aad589d8ae061

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7edfa8ae88fa09a20a68b1ac31a73fa0d085d3f12e15fda8fc2dde7dcdd2d83",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-03-23T23:15:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3b61967eee4c4331a574a1e1b62178dc0e16fa79d252c4f7f638c82bb2fe87c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9903362",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}