Pith Number

pith:CV7Q3GWZ

pith:2017:CV7Q3GWZBMMPTYZWJINTSU3WQ3

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Vacuum Topology and the Electroweak Phase Transition

Francesc Ferrer, Tanmay Vachaspati, Yiyang Zhang

arxiv:1706.00040 v2 · 2017-05-31 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CV7Q3GWZBMMPTYZWJINTSU3WQ3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:04.037742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

157f0d9ad90b18f9e3364a1b39537686f179f54502fc06a6db07b96d38bd393f

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.00040 · arxiv_version: 1706.00040v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.00040 · pith_short_12: CV7Q3GWZBMMP · pith_short_16: CV7Q3GWZBMMPTYZW · pith_short_8: CV7Q3GWZ

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/CV7Q3GWZBMMPTYZWJINTSU3WQ3 \
  | 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: 157f0d9ad90b18f9e3364a1b39537686f179f54502fc06a6db07b96d38bd393f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61ad7e334c000be64146556927a10bfcaf8a23b957da42f81aeedaaf79b4218d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-31T18:21:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00d2b19a83e68b2a54ed2c98449fab774bddbbecb3e8b64cdee973d78a727420"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.00040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}