Pith Number

pith:NM6JGESQ

pith:1992:NM6JGESQWNMRBTKBO7LFVMM2GW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Metastable Cosmic Strings in Realistic Models

R. Holman, R. Watkins, S.D.H. Hsu, T. Vachaspati

arxiv:hep-ph/9208245 v1 · 1992-08-25 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NM6JGESQWNMRBTKBO7LFVMM2GW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:25.533192Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b3c931250b35910cd4177d65ab19a3584592fda09d2b109b62f4ebd768f1c79

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9208245 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9208245v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9208245 · pith_short_12: NM6JGESQWNMR · pith_short_16: NM6JGESQWNMRBTKB · pith_short_8: NM6JGESQ

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/NM6JGESQWNMRBTKBO7LFVMM2GW \
  | 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: 6b3c931250b35910cd4177d65ab19a3584592fda09d2b109b62f4ebd768f1c79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f24b998a6194032057ea57328ce1d61306a97a5ba550db66fb7a644b8dc037e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1992-08-25T15:05:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "713472f74040adf397d93a47240ebd5fcd162fe9e22fb854b73654bf8bba4fb3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9208245",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}