Pith Number

pith:QUDXV7RK

pith:2010:QUDXV7RKO4U3KDUBMWO6Z32CGE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Semi-scaling cosmic strings

Vitaly Vanchurin

arxiv:1005.5721 v2 · 2010-05-31 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QUDXV7RKO4U3KDUBMWO6Z32CGE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:35:37.129952Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85077afe2a7729b50e81659decef423106161d744a3d6ef12bb6f9f5d7bf74d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.5721 · arxiv_version: 1005.5721v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.5721 · pith_short_12: QUDXV7RKO4U3 · pith_short_16: QUDXV7RKO4U3KDUB · pith_short_8: QUDXV7RK

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/QUDXV7RKO4U3KDUBMWO6Z32CGE \
  | 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: 85077afe2a7729b50e81659decef423106161d744a3d6ef12bb6f9f5d7bf74d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "82f0e749c8d6e0cdb4e16bdadc75dd4fa464dbae167e1fb2007f3c06a79f8fb5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-31T18:42:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1583e45f1ecc07070608f302a930ad788013ca8c019f097c42a1f3f8e0445c99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.5721",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}