Pith Number

pith:YYPNCVNA

pith:2018:YYPNCVNADNWQG53AGXSZKHPKDI

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On cosmic strings, infinite line-masses and conformal invariance

Reinoud Jan Slagter

arxiv:1810.08793 v2 · 2018-10-20 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YYPNCVNADNWQG53AGXSZKHPKDI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:37.500963Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c61ed155a01b6d03776035e5951dea1a1bff8143d11c1bfb9b3f19683d22d4d4

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.08793 · arxiv_version: 1810.08793v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.08793 · pith_short_12: YYPNCVNADNWQ · pith_short_16: YYPNCVNADNWQG53A · pith_short_8: YYPNCVNA

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/YYPNCVNADNWQG53AGXSZKHPKDI \
  | 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: c61ed155a01b6d03776035e5951dea1a1bff8143d11c1bfb9b3f19683d22d4d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d8dc96374b7bb19a6d68a09ff81fbb9f26f91eb76640365972e3d188ba64870e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-20T12:00:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0e9036ea544506992a5ab0d58fdbe40e67496fa304df0e4a89ddfb54f2af521"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.08793",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}