Pith Number

pith:XUO6X2SX

pith:2016:XUO6X2SXX475XYPRILZSVZUSWA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vacuum polarization and classical self-action near higher-dimensional defects

Pavel Spirin, Yuri V. Grats

arxiv:1609.02889 v1 · 2016-09-09 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XUO6X2SXX475XYPRILZSVZUSWA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:49:15.743123Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd1debea57bf3fdbe1f142f32ae692b02843101add374bdc171b0ee12970b88c

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.02889 · arxiv_version: 1609.02889v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.02889 · pith_short_12: XUO6X2SXX475 · pith_short_16: XUO6X2SXX475XYPR · pith_short_8: XUO6X2SX

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/XUO6X2SXX475XYPRILZSVZUSWA \
  | 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: bd1debea57bf3fdbe1f142f32ae692b02843101add374bdc171b0ee12970b88c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81b1777f24f56b6be5ee27ffef34aa16588dbfc886944543917c19fcd940b704",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-09T18:56:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b749eac12e0a035da5ec738fc8185038bd483d657e0766905339a3771deb5d3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.02889",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}