Pith Number

pith:3NLY4WNO

pith:1994:3NLY4WNOUTR2ORJVO6SBA67P7C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Rays From Cosmic Strings

A.J. Gill, T.W.B. Kibble

arxiv:hep-ph/9403395 v1 · 1994-03-30 · hep-ph · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3NLY4WNOUTR2ORJVO6SBA67P7C}

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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	2026-05-18T02:37:13.328587Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db578e59aea4e3a7453577a4107beff8b5c12d832dba34784342c942af6b9e72

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9403395 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9403395v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9403395 · pith_short_12: 3NLY4WNOUTR2 · pith_short_16: 3NLY4WNOUTR2ORJV · pith_short_8: 3NLY4WNO

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/3NLY4WNOUTR2ORJVO6SBA67P7C \
  | 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: db578e59aea4e3a7453577a4107beff8b5c12d832dba34784342c942af6b9e72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "748edc284a96f67a2a3f03c12d099bd606069d3aa2d2e571ca7213a4dd96ba15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1994-03-30T13:57:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00484292bdaadbfd87cffa00a5a135a3f3b0372932f492abc095bcf591f27a2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9403395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}