Pith Number

pith:VA5AHMAS

pith:1998:VA5AHMASXE35GRNTPFVV6H6OVT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dilatonic global strings

Owen Dando, Ruth Gregory

arxiv:gr-qc/9802015 v2 · 1998-02-06 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VA5AHMASXE35GRNTPFVV6H6OVT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:07.704264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a83a03b012b937d345b3796b5f1fceacd3dabc8a25fa037d7daf424b7775564b

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9802015 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9802015v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9802015 · pith_short_12: VA5AHMASXE35 · pith_short_16: VA5AHMASXE35GRNT · pith_short_8: VA5AHMAS

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/VA5AHMASXE35GRNTPFVV6H6OVT \
  | 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: a83a03b012b937d345b3796b5f1fceacd3dabc8a25fa037d7daf424b7775564b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a8aa0c98e730efdaabd1e618deffd690e1aea1d4ac1e9795c1554eed7a2b1df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-02-06T15:21:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49ce43d0cb9881df797da2bb3c7b54a2c74605b9c90114cdb370b18cad6e3749"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9802015",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}