Pith Number

pith:V4FOQMKQ

pith:2002:V4FOQMKQDBTMG6HXQBONBMRVSM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic optical activity in the spacetime of a scalar-tensor screwed cosmic string

C.N. Ferreira, H.J. Mosquera Cuesta, V.B. Bezerra

arxiv:hep-th/0210052 v2 · 2002-10-06 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4FOQMKQDBTMG6HXQBONBMRVSM}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T04:21:22.994420Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af0ae831501866c378f7805cd0b235930ea48e487aa7490f3110dbd608d4816c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0210052 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0210052v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0210052 · pith_short_12: V4FOQMKQDBTM · pith_short_16: V4FOQMKQDBTMG6HX · pith_short_8: V4FOQMKQ

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/V4FOQMKQDBTMG6HXQBONBMRVSM \
  | 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: af0ae831501866c378f7805cd0b235930ea48e487aa7490f3110dbd608d4816c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4814f99bb6c26f32b3abf8b08ee55faf445239df2cb08964acc9cc28005844dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-06T13:52:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ca52af7d937c0ecd5a21f8440ae490e8ea71d58e01f282fd168938e7af3d6e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0210052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}