Pith Number

pith:RJNJ56PG

pith:1997:RJNJ56PGEYMZKVAT4IIVIZBI4X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Texture from a Broken Global SU(3) Symmetry

Chris Barnes, Neil Turok

arxiv:hep-ph/9702377 v1 · 1997-02-20 · hep-ph · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RJNJ56PGEYMZKVAT4IIVIZBI4X}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:05.338345Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a5a9ef9e62619955413e211546428e5f75c18832b1d6298295b4f317d3da995

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9702377 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9702377v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9702377 · pith_short_12: RJNJ56PGEYMZ · pith_short_16: RJNJ56PGEYMZKVAT · pith_short_8: RJNJ56PG

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/RJNJ56PGEYMZKVAT4IIVIZBI4X \
  | 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: 8a5a9ef9e62619955413e211546428e5f75c18832b1d6298295b4f317d3da995

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af6032490ad179d702d34cf943acc533fba7d741ad7d155cf24b6afba58a0c10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-02-20T18:35:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fff2f02f40ed741b4413deb6417b65cac55f21d03a519984b6923373b434394d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9702377",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}