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pith:EEULR2CL

pith:2026:EEULR2CLFLXUI5QJ74FL2ZLAFQ

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Metastable cosmic strings are broken at the start

Edward Hardy, Ethan Carragher, Lorenzo Tranchedone, Nat\'alie Koscelansk\'a van IJcken

arxiv:2601.04320 v1 · 2026-01-07 · hep-ph · astro-ph.CO

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4 papers in Pith

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Thermal Metastable Strings in One-Scale Models and Gravitational Waves

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

Metastable strings at PTAs: classical stability analysis

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First computed	2026-07-29T01:24:27.735597Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2128b8e84b2aef447609ff0abd65602c0ae58b027b8b9a828b58e4aa621f3741

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.04320 · arxiv_version: 2601.04320v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.04320 · pith_short_12: EEULR2CLFLXU · pith_short_16: EEULR2CLFLXUI5QJ · pith_short_8: EEULR2CL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EEULR2CLFLXUI5QJ74FL2ZLAFQ \
  | 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: 2128b8e84b2aef447609ff0abd65602c0ae58b027b8b9a828b58e4aa621f3741

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e399d2f86e8be38a224c7b875056c7a1bf1528fdc99e12bae822db322849a7e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-07T19:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e344b69b75904df29a7a725d4c9acc9ff89bc1c216329f518272c88d3473800c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.04320",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}