Pith Number

pith:BTE5F6RW

pith:2014:BTE5F6RWMFUOVWVFYA4RZUKEIJ

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Metastable vacuum decay in center-stabilized Yang-Mills theory at large N

M.B. Voloshin, Xin Li

arxiv:1408.3054 v1 · 2014-08-13 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BTE5F6RWMFUOVWVFYA4RZUKEIJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:32:53.473724Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cc9d2fa366168eadaa5c0391cd144425be60c5e999aae1ef09171ae287226de

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.3054 · arxiv_version: 1408.3054v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.3054 · pith_short_12: BTE5F6RWMFUO · pith_short_16: BTE5F6RWMFUOVWVF · pith_short_8: BTE5F6RW

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/BTE5F6RWMFUOVWVFYA4RZUKEIJ \
  | 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: 0cc9d2fa366168eadaa5c0391cd144425be60c5e999aae1ef09171ae287226de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3546525b74b2b27d57e546738641b57a0251aa21d18d7d5d6308564e2cdb796b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-13T17:17:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "849c9733bf1b49c07643d95a8e2f284b0b1edc53213ed068fb9a0487ea4d2762"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.3054",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}