Pith Number

pith:VML7SYC2

pith:2026:VML7SYC26RJNHOFEPDNNKFDYZX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Possibility of a Strong First-Order Phase Transition in Neutron Stars

Lie-Wen Chen, Zheng Cao

arxiv:2606.06378 v1 · 2026-06-04 · nucl-th · astro-ph.HE · hep-ph · nucl-ex

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VML7SYC26RJNHOFEPDNNKFDYZX}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-05T01:15:43.740213Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab17f9605af452d3b8a478dad51478cdf71f212756610f99c37452d4b400e515

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.06378 · arxiv_version: 2606.06378v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.06378 · pith_short_12: VML7SYC26RJN · pith_short_16: VML7SYC26RJNHOFE · pith_short_8: VML7SYC2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VML7SYC26RJNHOFEPDNNKFDYZX \
  | 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: ab17f9605af452d3b8a478dad51478cdf71f212756610f99c37452d4b400e515

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1724d6e997d3f3463f17de03d9a2f304407fbcce89816b286058eadc66aa3af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "hep-ph",
      "nucl-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nucl-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T16:45:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b3c5c0b991b7f2f84951ec945c142e2348f6166d70768484a8df94f5aadb4017"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.06378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}