Pith Number

pith:YQBVNRLG

pith:2014:YQBVNRLGYC32QYAD7Z67P3KLSC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Global monopoles can change Universe's topology

Anja Marunovic, Tomislav Prokopec

arxiv:1411.7402 v3 · 2014-11-26 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YQBVNRLGYC32QYAD7Z67P3KLSC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:47.726092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c40356c566c0b7a86003fe7df7ed4b909a0bfd7950cc33d51d4989107ba4f015

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.7402 · arxiv_version: 1411.7402v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.7402 · pith_short_12: YQBVNRLGYC32 · pith_short_16: YQBVNRLGYC32QYAD · pith_short_8: YQBVNRLG

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/YQBVNRLGYC32QYAD7Z67P3KLSC \
  | 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: c40356c566c0b7a86003fe7df7ed4b909a0bfd7950cc33d51d4989107ba4f015

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e462c656e89d306016cc50755597f0bcc602a86807dbb36560348bc8abf83332",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-26T21:29:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65b66b64cf8bc8af271b7c48a95867a602138af212a3e4bcc27aeb1c92428fa5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.7402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}