Pith Number

pith:MVN52JML

pith:1997:MVN52JMLM2ZRVL3J2SZVU6MA27

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

"Lattice-Free" Simulations of Topological Defect Formation

Alexander Vilenkin, Robert J. Scherrer

arxiv:hep-ph/9709498 v4 · 1997-09-29 · hep-ph · astro-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVN52JMLM2ZRVL3J2SZVU6MA27}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:05.012700Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

655bdd258b66b31aaf69d4b35a7980d7ea60c6b5a70a2ac3e27585b93effb9ca

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9709498 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9709498v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9709498 · pith_short_12: MVN52JMLM2ZR · pith_short_16: MVN52JMLM2ZRVL3J · pith_short_8: MVN52JML

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/MVN52JMLM2ZRVL3J2SZVU6MA27 \
  | 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: 655bdd258b66b31aaf69d4b35a7980d7ea60c6b5a70a2ac3e27585b93effb9ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fab96779e03dd4b09e91c3f715c9aa4d5f01b1d114c1759ff8b9345bd2c9d7db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-09-29T18:57:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bfb4cb0fa054f4b4f102f4ba008cf035ecdb5d8c96a0271ab8b01caac94ff11"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9709498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}