Pith Number

pith:KEPYPFPD

pith:2016:KEPYPFPDEKP2BMS25RL5M4JE53

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stability longevity and all that : false vacua and topological defects

Urjit A. Yajnik

arxiv:1610.03174 v1 · 2016-10-11 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KEPYPFPDEKP2BMS25RL5M4JE53}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:02:46.350271Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

511f8795e3229fa0b25aec57d67124eee76dd3debc45d185b137ab8cde2f1920

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.03174 · arxiv_version: 1610.03174v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.03174 · pith_short_12: KEPYPFPDEKP2 · pith_short_16: KEPYPFPDEKP2BMS2 · pith_short_8: KEPYPFPD

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/KEPYPFPDEKP2BMS25RL5M4JE53 \
  | 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: 511f8795e3229fa0b25aec57d67124eee76dd3debc45d185b137ab8cde2f1920

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd1ae92e7883996d8be46724706537b1e65af0076e98d0c3fcb4cd7fac67a0f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-11T04:06:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc45e70934ba496c5260e54691e5e96c6d5bc46c1b111e90db500541cf6bc1d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.03174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}