Pith Number

pith:7VDOXU63

pith:2008:7VDOXU63RULT4YLURZ3OXOO57K

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On the symmetry of the vacuum in theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking

Alejandro Perez, Daniel Sudarsky

arxiv:0811.3181 v1 · 2008-11-19 · physics.gen-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7VDOXU63RULT4YLURZ3OXOO57K}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:15:13.902958Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd46ebd3db8d173e61748e76ebb9ddfaa4d4ee87f5e49a6d73750c9dafe096e8

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.3181 · arxiv_version: 0811.3181v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.3181 · pith_short_12: 7VDOXU63RULT · pith_short_16: 7VDOXU63RULT4YLU · pith_short_8: 7VDOXU63

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7VDOXU63RULT4YLURZ3OXOO57K \
  | 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: fd46ebd3db8d173e61748e76ebb9ddfaa4d4ee87f5e49a6d73750c9dafe096e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6bcb40f8e6fa81c63a024864313282576853e1d84ef7b3cf6b65e3e147cfbd4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-19T19:19:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08bc3649bd2464bd7218b1d33d5df3f0a23ef6094731ef9c68e1fb8dafde312c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.3181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}