Pith Number

pith:QV52MXOS

pith:2026:QV52MXOSVWLDRNZ6DWU5HQ62NQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The decay rate of metastable cosmic strings beyond the thin-string approximation

Valerie Domcke, Yu Hamada

arxiv:2606.03008 v1 · 2026-06-02 · hep-ph · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QV52MXOSVWLDRNZ6DWU5HQ62NQ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-03T01:05:29.140511Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

857ba65dd2ad9638b73e1da9d3c3da6c3cc6c9c68243c777ac5a7e23de501a1d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.03008 · arxiv_version: 2606.03008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03008 · pith_short_12: QV52MXOSVWLD · pith_short_16: QV52MXOSVWLDRNZ6 · pith_short_8: QV52MXOS

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/QV52MXOSVWLDRNZ6DWU5HQ62NQ \
  | 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: 857ba65dd2ad9638b73e1da9d3c3da6c3cc6c9c68243c777ac5a7e23de501a1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d32bc05c89e8012e9ddeab42b44a10395d950eeb982ed7e6f3f1040a7b315cf8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T01:26:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44d436adc18430b3f85a3bda7baab3b56ed323e12fdc5388e5d0186a5fc1f13c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.03008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}