Pith Number

pith:NCF3YFVK

pith:2001:NCF3YFVK4BB5WQPA6CFXTJBDRX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gamma ray bursts from superconducting cosmic strings

A. Vilenkin, B. Hnatyk, V. Berezinsky

arxiv:astro-ph/0102366 v3 · 2001-02-21 · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NCF3YFVK4BB5WQPA6CFXTJBDRX}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:36:07.531291Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

688bbc16aae043db41e0f08b79a4238dc7e931359e3eb41fc1eef4cd4ef3df36

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0102366 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0102366v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0102366 · pith_short_12: NCF3YFVK4BB5 · pith_short_16: NCF3YFVK4BB5WQPA · pith_short_8: NCF3YFVK

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/NCF3YFVK4BB5WQPA6CFXTJBDRX \
  | 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: 688bbc16aae043db41e0f08b79a4238dc7e931359e3eb41fc1eef4cd4ef3df36

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76bec3f18bb46288b8a4e7bf7c33c538dd2acb5e8c5cdde2077e5090c7c138d1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-02-21T16:59:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1eca9014a757bede9982d45501f9bebadd95b61fcad58c7d2400fbee0be0b52a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0102366",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}