Pith Number

pith:VLRRPYTT

pith:1995:VLRRPYTT27STQX76ZDS6BZAMXF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topological Incarnations of Electroweak Defects

Tanmay Vachaspati, Thomas W. Kephart

arxiv:hep-ph/9503355 v1 · 1995-03-16 · hep-ph · astro-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLRRPYTT27STQX76ZDS6BZAMXF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:38:05.947622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aae317e273d7e5385ffec8e5e0e40cb9575129593de814137cae3113e47a140a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9503355 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9503355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9503355 · pith_short_12: VLRRPYTT27ST · pith_short_16: VLRRPYTT27STQX76 · pith_short_8: VLRRPYTT

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/VLRRPYTT27STQX76ZDS6BZAMXF \
  | 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: aae317e273d7e5385ffec8e5e0e40cb9575129593de814137cae3113e47a140a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "359f030a665c167f547d2c86133f274b4dd5242a94eab93dac5f7816d7a50280",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-03-16T18:06:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c3a2c292824a17d582df861984756c06a259055af37b3005c6f326e79d0e1f40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9503355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}