Pith Number

pith:NVCQP6Q6

pith:1998:NVCQP6Q6D4JDK5USY5R7N3BMJX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-gaussian Features of Linear Cosmic String Models

B. Allen, E. P. S. Shellard, J.H.P.Wu, P. P. Avelino

arxiv:astro-ph/9803120 v2 · 1998-03-11 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NVCQP6Q6D4JDK5USY5R7N3BMJX}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-04T16:06:13.653570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d4507fa1e1f12357692c763f6ec2c4de6a1aca5a810195eea1665a2df28c38d

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9803120 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9803120v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9803120 · pith_short_12: NVCQP6Q6D4JD · pith_short_16: NVCQP6Q6D4JDK5US · pith_short_8: NVCQP6Q6

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/NVCQP6Q6D4JDK5USY5R7N3BMJX \
  | 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: 6d4507fa1e1f12357692c763f6ec2c4de6a1aca5a810195eea1665a2df28c38d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a7de391b854414f2897f660b912c6cfbefd873a541997af562160dce46b4796",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-03-11T00:01:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53a0b53bc7c037791347800604866543165b6fb536136f5aad833b921a74f5ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9803120",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}