Pith Number

pith:R6ECYVHL

pith:1998:R6ECYVHLXG2XBFMIJIMRYKQP4I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Strings - Dead Again?

Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex)

arxiv:hep-ph/9806469 v1 · 1998-06-24 · hep-ph · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R6ECYVHLXG2XBFMIJIMRYKQP4I}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:16.528358Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f882c54ebb9b57095884a191c2a0fe22c5513bbf550361466ec3538c2b85eb2

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9806469 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9806469v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9806469 · pith_short_12: R6ECYVHLXG2X · pith_short_16: R6ECYVHLXG2XBFMI · pith_short_8: R6ECYVHL

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/R6ECYVHLXG2XBFMIJIMRYKQP4I \
  | 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: 8f882c54ebb9b57095884a191c2a0fe22c5513bbf550361466ec3538c2b85eb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c721030fea4fbbd28d1cba424340054f542486c132e4a70571b8823f9cfb1af3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-24T16:39:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d11ae8d22802b4b559cf2fdcc9009ef7da645545368cf6e0ce16e47bb0b908ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9806469",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}