Pith Number

pith:NRJVNVPR

pith:2002:NRJVNVPRFV47MW4OACKLB2BSUV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum tunneling of superconducting string currents

Alexander Vilenkin, Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum

arxiv:hep-ph/0202116 v1 · 2002-02-13 · hep-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NRJVNVPRFV47MW4OACKLB2BSUV}

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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	2026-07-04T16:34:00.549998Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c5356d5f12d79f65b8e0094b0e832a56ea3384d0eea11d308987413af8a2af3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/0202116 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/0202116v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0202116 · pith_short_12: NRJVNVPRFV47 · pith_short_16: NRJVNVPRFV47MW4O · pith_short_8: NRJVNVPR

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/NRJVNVPRFV47MW4OACKLB2BSUV \
  | 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: 6c5356d5f12d79f65b8e0094b0e832a56ea3384d0eea11d308987413af8a2af3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1ce609f6180d67b707d4d6e039062e164d7cff6d72a00a6eeb544731508747f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-02-13T01:46:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04659001f427ead6d4a8da54994e1c468e6b710297d58ee53715159de3a3d0de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/0202116",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}