Pith Number

pith:Z5YSXINK

pith:1993:Z5YSXINKS4SILQOMNHXZNTIU4Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do Global String Loops Collapse to Form Black Holes?

Joaquim Fort, Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:hep-th/9305081 v1 · 1993-05-18 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z5YSXINKS4SILQOMNHXZNTIU4Y}

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Record completeness

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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.

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2 papers in Pith

Gravitational Properties of the Monopole Bag

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:56:13.728815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf712ba1aa972485c1cc69ef96cd14e63544641f6f479cf0e6c1a704f9e041b9

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9305081 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9305081v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9305081 · pith_short_12: Z5YSXINKS4SI · pith_short_16: Z5YSXINKS4SILQOM · pith_short_8: Z5YSXINK

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/Z5YSXINKS4SILQOMNHXZNTIU4Y \
  | 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: cf712ba1aa972485c1cc69ef96cd14e63544641f6f479cf0e6c1a704f9e041b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bce67e29435e43719559dcf04bec1d95334893b4db5a66c79acc1ce980928098",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-05-18T20:44:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c08ded7b92c25678c937171986617ec54c86f0b605e7e3c34eb147c6c0a3cc7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9305081",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}