Pith Number

pith:4JXVM2VV

pith:2018:4JXVM2VVDDF4AQVYRUQENG3FCY

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A New Semiclassical Picture of Vacuum Decay

Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris, Jonathan Braden, Matthew C. Johnson, Silke Weinfurtner

arxiv:1806.06069 v2 · 2018-06-15 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{4JXVM2VVDDF4AQVYRUQENG3FCY}

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Compact space catalysis of false vacuum decay and Schwinger effect

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:39:48.873033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e26f566ab518cbc042b88d20469b651638a04cca097f3610ed183e7d56ac7a36

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.06069 · arxiv_version: 1806.06069v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.06069 · pith_short_12: 4JXVM2VVDDF4 · pith_short_16: 4JXVM2VVDDF4AQVY · pith_short_8: 4JXVM2VV

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4JXVM2VVDDF4AQVYRUQENG3FCY \
  | 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: e26f566ab518cbc042b88d20469b651638a04cca097f3610ed183e7d56ac7a36

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf5a10503d21fe78cbebb2df7795356b8a85f0bf6c1697d267e06cf03ddb3d98",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-15T18:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd0c1cb359fa2db24a97759b417ef69dbbbdf555bfbc879cd94f2f0e4edfa550"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.06069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}