Pith Number

pith:MK2CBFXZ

pith:2009:MK2CBFXZPYH7QYKQ7KAKTIPMVY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Destruction of a metastable string by particle collisions

A. Monin, M.B. Voloshin

arxiv:0902.0407 v1 · 2009-02-02 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MK2CBFXZPYH7QYKQ7KAKTIPMVY}

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:01.429392Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62b42096f97e0ff86150fa80a9a1ecae16f836139cebbb65eaf9f76d3582621e

Aliases

arxiv: 0902.0407 · arxiv_version: 0902.0407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0902.0407 · pith_short_12: MK2CBFXZPYH7 · pith_short_16: MK2CBFXZPYH7QYKQ · pith_short_8: MK2CBFXZ

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/MK2CBFXZPYH7QYKQ7KAKTIPMVY \
  | 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: 62b42096f97e0ff86150fa80a9a1ecae16f836139cebbb65eaf9f76d3582621e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "880e5ff2920fb783e122bea8018f8b5665b85ede790c718752659db4061d0f2f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2009-02-02T23:35:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fdfbdba618fc45f2290b1acb04d1cde2c484b00caf358322b5327ed1f50b170"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0902.0407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}