Pith Number

pith:FXMWZZA6

pith:2018:FXMWZZA6J7RBMP2EPGBHCVUPMK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vacua on the Brink of Decay

Alexander M. Polyakov, Grigory M. Tarnopolsky, Guilherme L. Pimentel

arxiv:1803.09168 v1 · 2018-03-24 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FXMWZZA6J7RBMP2EPGBHCVUPMK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:07.939066Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2dd96ce41e4fe2163f44798271568f6285cd1a1d092beedd4d685c2b7f4acbc1

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.09168 · arxiv_version: 1803.09168v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09168 · pith_short_12: FXMWZZA6J7RB · pith_short_16: FXMWZZA6J7RBMP2E · pith_short_8: FXMWZZA6

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/FXMWZZA6J7RBMP2EPGBHCVUPMK \
  | 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: 2dd96ce41e4fe2163f44798271568f6285cd1a1d092beedd4d685c2b7f4acbc1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d5c70cda30aa441c76897b6d13d250d283741e0ae822b1edf387e59332d52b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-24T22:09:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "132f5af54cb9d3a3d84bb351e351bc65ac894fe9857de7d1f65d9b59ba529186"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.09168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}