Pith Number

pith:MVG6CUW3

pith:1995:MVG6CUW3YRSX7MC5WELX7G6Q3U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

THE NUMBER OF SPHALERON INSTABILITIES OF THE BARTNIK-McKINNON SOLITONS AND NON-ABELIAN BLACK HOLES

G.Lavrelashvili, M.S.Volkov, N.Straumann, O.Brodbeck

arxiv:hep-th/9502045 v2 · 1995-02-07 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVG6CUW3YRSX7MC5WELX7G6Q3U}

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5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:06:03.365488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

654de152dbc4657fb05db1177f9bd0dd193df11b9038a431a669174c5065b721

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9502045 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9502045v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9502045 · pith_short_12: MVG6CUW3YRSX · pith_short_16: MVG6CUW3YRSX7MC5 · pith_short_8: MVG6CUW3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MVG6CUW3YRSX7MC5WELX7G6Q3U \
  | 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: 654de152dbc4657fb05db1177f9bd0dd193df11b9038a431a669174c5065b721

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16cd71aa59ce6eb1d4c8124f80df9aa92f2e0dea244f4479ed644229ec409968",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-02-07T12:57:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c8cf4fee3f6e5108cef49877a65bbb07131eed757e32c785f223c7679d08b72"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9502045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}