Pith Number

pith:VWXAL6OT

pith:2009:VWXAL6OTDDGJKJOK56GUIBRRI2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coupled currents in cosmic strings

Marc Lilley, Patrick Peter, Xavier Martin

arxiv:0903.4328 v1 · 2009-03-25 · hep-ph · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWXAL6OTDDGJKJOK56GUIBRRI2}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T15:47:02.722129Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adae05f9d318cc9525caef8d440631468e2e1febd6a648d1b1ae24ffe698934a

Aliases

arxiv: 0903.4328 · arxiv_version: 0903.4328v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0903.4328 · pith_short_12: VWXAL6OTDDGJ · pith_short_16: VWXAL6OTDDGJKJOK · pith_short_8: VWXAL6OT

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/VWXAL6OTDDGJKJOK56GUIBRRI2 \
  | 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: adae05f9d318cc9525caef8d440631468e2e1febd6a648d1b1ae24ffe698934a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3d46768ca5adf2e81c9a2a0302715701d9e1f754e18d9a6123b38868a2d9c9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-03-25T14:14:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "24b5545cb58931e308d52e0bd2dfd227d9d49eff0cfad067a9c45a4d2a6b6dcd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0903.4328",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}