Pith Number

pith:NNZK5QZM

pith:1996:NNZK5QZMDIIAAZEVKN7KDYZHBJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Structure of Cosmic String Wakes

A. Sornborger (DAMTP), B. Fryxell (George Mason University), K. Olson (George Mason University), R. Brandenberger (Brown)

arxiv:astro-ph/9608020 v1 · 1996-08-05 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NNZK5QZMDIIAAZEVKN7KDYZHBJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.939033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b72aec32c1a10006495537ea1e3270a7660791da2f1a64f06c746d52c723445

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9608020 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9608020v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9608020 · pith_short_12: NNZK5QZMDIIA · pith_short_16: NNZK5QZMDIIAAZEV · pith_short_8: NNZK5QZM

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/NNZK5QZMDIIAAZEVKN7KDYZHBJ \
  | 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: 6b72aec32c1a10006495537ea1e3270a7660791da2f1a64f06c746d52c723445

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e55efbf3e86d25e2d563d8fcca94af750a1256ecfec474ee61c85bcde5a1a44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-05T11:56:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17fec0bfeb1776e40c61576988d713ad40f1b6279e05d42133b56ce50caada49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9608020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}