Pith Number

pith:NTJC66J4

pith:1997:NTJC66J4ZJGFHN6UHHYTH4XZ6V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic strings in dilaton gravity

Caroline Santos, Ruth Gregory

arxiv:gr-qc/9701014 v2 · 1997-01-09 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NTJC66J4ZJGFHN6UHHYTH4XZ6V}

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:47.612830Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6cd22f793cca4c53b7d439f133f2f9f579c2b897e3286c383c5fb961c1551f72

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9701014 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9701014v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9701014 · pith_short_12: NTJC66J4ZJGF · pith_short_16: NTJC66J4ZJGFHN6U · pith_short_8: NTJC66J4

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/NTJC66J4ZJGFHN6UHHYTH4XZ6V \
  | 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: 6cd22f793cca4c53b7d439f133f2f9f579c2b897e3286c383c5fb961c1551f72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea0d3563707812cba5eece94aa9e6f3d6d95d80ce838e35fbe945b98efd7ad2a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1997-01-09T17:39:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87ee8e89e91e6b9bc3fd29d32f2406dcc87a1a783d5d7f9fbea09847718189a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9701014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}