Pith Number

pith:T3QM6QRC

pith:2019:T3QM6QRC5UMIMMVZTCW44NPPES

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Topological defects as relics of spontaneous symmetry breaking from black hole physics

Chuan-Yin Xia, Hai-Qing Zhang, Hua-Bi Zeng

arxiv:1912.08332 v2 · 2019-12-18 · hep-th · cond-mat.str-el

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:23:04.264992Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9ee0cf4222ed188632b998adce35ef24ad52f1c11fb6ea6e527750d703fd06c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.08332 · arxiv_version: 1912.08332v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.08332 · pith_short_12: T3QM6QRC5UMI · pith_short_16: T3QM6QRC5UMIMMVZ · pith_short_8: T3QM6QRC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T3QM6QRC5UMIMMVZTCW44NPPES \
  | 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: 9ee0cf4222ed188632b998adce35ef24ad52f1c11fb6ea6e527750d703fd06c7

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-18T01:02:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2f7cd5d58a809181b4e8bc86ff1a6f789d577013061fee055d761e24868e746"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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