Pith Number

pith:KWJCIZEI

pith:2009:KWJCIZEIWGNMRA3NPYKV73KRZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spontaneous and Induced Decay of Metastable Strings and Domain Walls

A. Monin, M.B. Voloshin

arxiv:0904.1728 v1 · 2009-04-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KWJCIZEIWGNMRA3NPYKV73KRZQ}

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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	2026-07-04T17:19:58.778636Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5592246488b19ac8836d7e155fed51cc27fd828f3ab19e326d6dd899bc5699c8

Aliases

arxiv: 0904.1728 · arxiv_version: 0904.1728v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0904.1728 · pith_short_12: KWJCIZEIWGNM · pith_short_16: KWJCIZEIWGNMRA3N · pith_short_8: KWJCIZEI

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/KWJCIZEIWGNMRA3NPYKV73KRZQ \
  | 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: 5592246488b19ac8836d7e155fed51cc27fd828f3ab19e326d6dd899bc5699c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0fd4c5e2d74a17d56ebcf947e772c0d6a971133096e9e65270493e65984376b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2009-04-10T18:47:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57b90dff5bf329ccc4e92a8c44fef8cfc2c2a7a693f9195bc779e72bc0fdc733"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0904.1728",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}