Pith Number

pith:BT2MN7KA

pith:1996:BT2MN7KAVQUWS3AI77HAV2UY3C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantitative String Evolution

C.J.A.P. Martins, E.P.S. Shellard (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

arxiv:hep-ph/9602271 v2 · 1996-02-12 · hep-ph · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BT2MN7KAVQUWS3AI77HAV2UY3C}

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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.

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3 papers in Pith

Cosmic Strings as Dynamical Dark Energy: Novel Constraints

High-Quality Axion Dark Matter at Gravitational Wave Interferometers

New gravitational-wave templates for metastable cosmic strings: Loop breaking versus network collapse

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:22:50.770788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cf4c6fd40ac29696c08ffce0aea98d8b77992b7c59f82efc3e470394c0a550d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9602271 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9602271v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9602271 · pith_short_12: BT2MN7KAVQUW · pith_short_16: BT2MN7KAVQUWS3AI · pith_short_8: BT2MN7KA

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/BT2MN7KAVQUWS3AI77HAV2UY3C \
  | 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: 0cf4c6fd40ac29696c08ffce0aea98d8b77992b7c59f82efc3e470394c0a550d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b932f765156b131076e3dc442fa0a681508f89f82d2b35e66f26bcdfc2b889e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-12T09:55:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6089fb5712aa3fae285e427b3f324f09488ad84aeccd82f331a2fba32962a70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9602271",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}