Pith Number

pith:YYC64CM3

pith:2023:YYC64CM3O66QDUDIJAHUDQZLYH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A cosmic string solution to the radio synchrotron background

Bryce Cyr, Jens Chluba, Sandeep Kumar Acharya

arxiv:2308.03512 v1 · 2023-08-07 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YYC64CM3O66QDUDIJAHUDQZLYH}

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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	2026-07-05T06:38:17.966097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c605ee099b77bd01d068480f41c32bc1d0649d38d84699604f1c12d2b6f99723

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.03512 · arxiv_version: 2308.03512v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.03512 · pith_short_12: YYC64CM3O66Q · pith_short_16: YYC64CM3O66QDUDI · pith_short_8: YYC64CM3

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/YYC64CM3O66QDUDIJAHUDQZLYH \
  | 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: c605ee099b77bd01d068480f41c32bc1d0649d38d84699604f1c12d2b6f99723

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "628d3fe15cb3038042debcae550634f773cfa2650ffa22f47a2dcf94dbfe5502",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-07T12:07:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd9f3a93cf18b04577e4235ab0f075b8c041f502c12bb2dc6c47e8a0786a4d35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.03512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}