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pith:HX3MBNBA

pith:2002:HX3MBNBAZ4EFZ3WMIKSTQB6EV6

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Metastable Strings in Abelian Higgs Models Embedded in Non-Abelian Theories: Calculating the Decay Rate

A. Yung, M. Shifman

arxiv:hep-th/0205025 v2 · 2002-05-02 · hep-th · hep-ph

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:34:44.875925Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3df6c0b420cf085ceecc42a53807c4afab9db4b8fcd12ae74485d244f9c11fba

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0205025 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0205025v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0205025 · pith_short_12: HX3MBNBAZ4EF · pith_short_16: HX3MBNBAZ4EFZ3WM · pith_short_8: HX3MBNBA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HX3MBNBAZ4EFZ3WMIKSTQB6EV6 \
  | 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: 3df6c0b420cf085ceecc42a53807c4afab9db4b8fcd12ae74485d244f9c11fba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f769d9075937f87b9b97d92d3ed3130350e2e7e8f684d581de47c66e70481426",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-02T19:46:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a12849a5bbb52bef3ff6cf5ede53a0a836a7fb284318455ef232ccc0b663091"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0205025",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}