Pith Number

pith:WNILWPZD

pith:2003:WNILWPZDM2PLMZHTJPYZY2NEZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Formation and evolution of cosmic D-strings

Alexander Vilenkin, Gia Dvali

arxiv:hep-th/0312007 v2 · 2003-11-30 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WNILWPZDM2PLMZHTJPYZY2NEZQ}

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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	2026-07-04T15:17:49.214654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b350bb3f23669eb664f34bf19c69a4cc3b011aa047af145b419447086eb08159

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0312007 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0312007v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0312007 · pith_short_12: WNILWPZDM2PL · pith_short_16: WNILWPZDM2PLMZHT · pith_short_8: WNILWPZD

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/WNILWPZDM2PLMZHTJPYZY2NEZQ \
  | 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: b350bb3f23669eb664f34bf19c69a4cc3b011aa047af145b419447086eb08159

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91fe19f4c85bd54205ce58274e1b74a930b14d9be43b90b47588fcfac15a7cbc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-11-30T17:39:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1714f83d9612a81ac56138181fcf8b175b37c740fd885ba748f1472d9c11bf65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0312007",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}