Pith Number

pith:QNIUGB5F

pith:1996:QNIUGB5F5ZKDOLVQEFVSZ2CJR4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Improvements for Vachaspati-Vilenkin-type Algorithms for Cosmic String and Disclination Formation

Karl Strobl

arxiv:hep-lat/9608085 v2 · 1996-08-15 · hep-lat · cond-mat

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QNIUGB5F5ZKDOLVQEFVSZ2CJR4}

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:45.755277Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83514307a5ee54372eb0216b2ce8498f0f1e5c3593837e24be5750c388ac643e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9608085 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9608085v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9608085 · pith_short_12: QNIUGB5F5ZKD · pith_short_16: QNIUGB5F5ZKDOLVQ · pith_short_8: QNIUGB5F

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/QNIUGB5F5ZKDOLVQEFVSZ2CJR4 \
  | 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: 83514307a5ee54372eb0216b2ce8498f0f1e5c3593837e24be5750c388ac643e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c983868dd787cefa94f0a687b2fc99aec5e16af379b65c82bf53e508b7d68976",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-15T15:37:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5c57dfc569cec74e97d5703c21fec2249195507f9f5f80f36ad96eee2ba760a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9608085",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}