Pith Number

pith:ULSK6FGX

pith:2008:ULSK6FGXHRG5IYJRLKDLGOYA53

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The spontaneous breaking of a metastable string

A. Monin, M.B. Voloshin

arxiv:0808.1693 v1 · 2008-08-12 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\pithnumber{ULSK6FGXHRG5IYJRLKDLGOYA53}

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New gravitational-wave templates for metastable cosmic strings: Loop breaking versus network collapse

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:29:12.219255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2e4af14d73c4dd461315a86b33b00eee98e1060e13a9290fa26040307ca1bf7

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.1693 · arxiv_version: 0808.1693v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.1693 · pith_short_12: ULSK6FGXHRG5 · pith_short_16: ULSK6FGXHRG5IYJR · pith_short_8: ULSK6FGX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ULSK6FGXHRG5IYJRLKDLGOYA53 \
  | 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: a2e4af14d73c4dd461315a86b33b00eee98e1060e13a9290fa26040307ca1bf7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b2654b8b7ebef66346b1c974406024f84f6f24c5b805eb52a3476fe2d0e92dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-12T16:35:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f16ee2d3877174b1e09935c42df8a3eb9e4c3ea5287139f96a88033d0f5bdc8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.1693",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}