Pith Number

pith:OGR62XBF

pith:1996:OGR62XBF2UZXZQJJ6PRLIIIGVC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Density of kinks after a quench: When symmetry breaks, how big are the pieces?

Pablo Laguna (Penn State/Los Alamos), Wojciech Hubert Zurek (Los Alamos)

arxiv:gr-qc/9607041 v1 · 1996-07-18 · gr-qc · cond-mat · hep-ph

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:37:29.654607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71a3ed5c25d5337cc129f3e2b42106a8b0f8ed41bef986ed9f368ea41cadc78b

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9607041 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9607041v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9607041 · pith_short_12: OGR62XBF2UZX · pith_short_16: OGR62XBF2UZXZQJJ · pith_short_8: OGR62XBF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OGR62XBF2UZXZQJJ6PRLIIIGVC \
  | 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: 71a3ed5c25d5337cc129f3e2b42106a8b0f8ed41bef986ed9f368ea41cadc78b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6756d0060b22b3f808fe71245b184fb99cbfa0f79826077b2efce5f18346b7ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-07-18T21:17:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "533a653b12a714ee39c0ca997ad69fab98fc18d2745c382c40b698c50b23983f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9607041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}