Pith Number

pith:OKJ32EEI

pith:1994:OKJ32EEI4KX7B4UIHNU5BMYQ4G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Formation of Topological Defects in a Second Order Phase Transition

Anne-Christine Davis (DAMTP, Cambridge), Robert H. Brandenberger (Brown Univ.)

arxiv:hep-ph/9403269 v1 · 1994-03-11 · hep-ph · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OKJ32EEI4KX7B4UIHNU5BMYQ4G}

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:45.696594Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7293bd1088e2aff0f2883b69d0b310e1b76d599b29cf8489380d93009bf9c63b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9403269 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9403269v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9403269 · pith_short_12: OKJ32EEI4KX7 · pith_short_16: OKJ32EEI4KX7B4UI · pith_short_8: OKJ32EEI

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/OKJ32EEI4KX7B4UIHNU5BMYQ4G \
  | 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: 7293bd1088e2aff0f2883b69d0b310e1b76d599b29cf8489380d93009bf9c63b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f72f3a6d6eab234ae53b413c66173e1f9faad1201831404b7617aa668bc0dfa9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1994-03-11T05:18:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fbc3abaff45f13be80b64993456276363578e55eefb4285e7c44feacf8f99613"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9403269",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}