Pith Number

pith:RCY2CQBC

pith:2002:RCY2CQBCV3GTTYGFEPUCGS2R2H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cold, warm, and composite (cool) cosmic string models

Brandon Carter

arxiv:hep-ph/0210263 v1 · 2002-10-18 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RCY2CQBCV3GTTYGFEPUCGS2R2H}

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:56.460243Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88b1a14022aecd39e0c523e8234b51d1e1147a8e1d4ffdcb845bda97023dfd84

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/0210263 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/0210263v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0210263 · pith_short_12: RCY2CQBCV3GT · pith_short_16: RCY2CQBCV3GTTYGF · pith_short_8: RCY2CQBC

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/RCY2CQBCV3GTTYGFEPUCGS2R2H \
  | 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: 88b1a14022aecd39e0c523e8234b51d1e1147a8e1d4ffdcb845bda97023dfd84

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc3dcc9a1609d1a28738d4ba1d7998424143b2dfc2602a9a24a3e736b04768de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-18T15:45:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7cd2f8e1be2d829aa2b277fe41948b9a07dffc13437db85f50d83e29a11e2661"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/0210263",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}