Pith Number

pith:IIDKUNP7

pith:1992:IIDKUNP7ELQEDW65FHGZMYC4QV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bound States Can Stabilize Electroweak Strings

Richard Watkins, Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:hep-ph/9211284 v2 · 1992-11-20 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IIDKUNP7ELQEDW65FHGZMYC4QV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:55:17.657639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4206aa35ff22e041dbdd29cd96605c85714f97551842787ba0c81db34d67c15a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9211284 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9211284v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9211284 · pith_short_12: IIDKUNP7ELQE · pith_short_16: IIDKUNP7ELQEDW65 · pith_short_8: IIDKUNP7

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/IIDKUNP7ELQEDW65FHGZMYC4QV \
  | 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: 4206aa35ff22e041dbdd29cd96605c85714f97551842787ba0c81db34d67c15a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df87255033114db000ea7fe6bbf1e19435b6fb37fad82735687d1da4d8bc233c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1992-11-20T16:17:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec30f60ab294892ab7fe320fef545ef5c28103279743b3e85a2662c3ea87ff91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9211284",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}