Pith Number

pith:RG74MXVH

pith:2016:RG74MXVHXSUOIHHYWRVFNLTZ6C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vacuum instability in slowly varying electric fields

D.M. Gitman, S.P. Gavrilov

arxiv:1612.06297 v3 · 2016-12-19 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RG74MXVHXSUOIHHYWRVFNLTZ6C}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:58.371854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89bfc65ea7bca8e41cf8b46a56ae79f0871d8e759ae667cfbf88e9f590ed1af1

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.06297 · arxiv_version: 1612.06297v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.06297 · pith_short_12: RG74MXVHXSUO · pith_short_16: RG74MXVHXSUOIHHY · pith_short_8: RG74MXVH

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/RG74MXVHXSUOIHHYWRVFNLTZ6C \
  | 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: 89bfc65ea7bca8e41cf8b46a56ae79f0871d8e759ae667cfbf88e9f590ed1af1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bbe1bf1f8625e92940a0fa65ef48a44e815e7e6725aed1583b0c5360ecb0fe7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-19T18:07:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e5336b4f8929253ead8685a1ddfeb9fd84781869ab5da62346dc172c627f31b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.06297",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}