Pith Number

pith:L2KIQO3X

pith:2026:L2KIQO3XGJB42MNWSI7ADJCCOW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Abundant production of scalars and axions from phase transition bubble expansion

Andrea Paolini, Gaurang Ramakant Kane, Isabel Garcia Garcia, John March-Russell

arxiv:2608.02729 v1 · 2026-08-03 · hep-ph · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L2KIQO3XGJB42MNWSI7ADJCCOW}

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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	2026-08-05T00:39:42.726466Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e94883b773243cd31b6923e01a4427592c1d32ae712264e9bef6a7747490bb8

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02729 · arxiv_version: 2608.02729v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02729 · pith_short_12: L2KIQO3XGJB4 · pith_short_16: L2KIQO3XGJB42MNW · pith_short_8: L2KIQO3X

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/L2KIQO3XGJB42MNWSI7ADJCCOW \
  | 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: 5e94883b773243cd31b6923e01a4427592c1d32ae712264e9bef6a7747490bb8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d16fa09747a77e21886ce70172ee2e3332cbab6e004d4ffe6c3d09fd6eb43b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T18:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ae7a2b003832472d9b5482c20ba74ed2834a38946d8810b4701a70d516e02e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02729",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}