Pith Number

pith:VNEP5BRN

pith:2015:VNEP5BRNTQ27KABHA5J4EHEU35

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Monopoles on strings

Tanmay Vachaspati, T. W. B. Kibble

arxiv:1506.02022 v2 · 2015-06-05 · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNEP5BRNTQ27KABHA5J4EHEU35}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:16.351360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab48fe862d9c35f500270753c21c94df7d44ac98d6d43f6708709f7ba279b70a

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.02022 · arxiv_version: 1506.02022v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.02022 · pith_short_12: VNEP5BRNTQ27 · pith_short_16: VNEP5BRNTQ27KABH · pith_short_8: VNEP5BRN

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/VNEP5BRNTQ27KABHA5J4EHEU35 \
  | 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: ab48fe862d9c35f500270753c21c94df7d44ac98d6d43f6708709f7ba279b70a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e046d6f288d56aaa2a2be318e2efb3852b0a663dce6eca15af6efae613d4ea64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-05T19:44:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95812bfb814f5193e42c512ee62f0e3e932b31721b821cab8a8fb703f0a81747"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.02022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}