Pith Number

pith:SFTKQ3O5

pith:2002:SFTKQ3O5RH2NQE66VUNSY6HYSW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spacetime structure of the global vortex

Caroline Santos, Ruth Gregory

arxiv:hep-th/0208037 v2 · 2002-08-05 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SFTKQ3O5RH2NQE66VUNSY6HYSW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:10.415224Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9166a86ddd89f4d813dead1b2c78f895901f381e33aeaf39b847bcee06fba0d1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0208037 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0208037v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0208037 · pith_short_12: SFTKQ3O5RH2N · pith_short_16: SFTKQ3O5RH2NQE66 · pith_short_8: SFTKQ3O5

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/SFTKQ3O5RH2NQE66VUNSY6HYSW \
  | 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: 9166a86ddd89f4d813dead1b2c78f895901f381e33aeaf39b847bcee06fba0d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04153b7ecf4b34c8b1b64e8793b76b5168deb4a2c0613d3b6ee1413334c7bb3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-05T13:26:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4f7162cfda144ef8b46046d6fef12a631a05e337e97f308a7ca35816a18a356"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0208037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}