Pith Number

pith:YFG6B4VP

pith:1992:YFG6B4VPCPCCUTAYBYPQYLW6NV

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Decay of Metastable Topological Defects

Alexander Vilenkin, John Preskill

arxiv:hep-ph/9209210 v1 · 1992-09-03 · hep-ph · hep-th

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\pithnumber{YFG6B4VPCPCCUTAYBYPQYLW6NV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:37:56.108166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c14de0f2af13c42a4c180e1f0c2ede6d5db8b53f9ba847bcdff3d9e5dbe14856

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9209210 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9209210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9209210 · pith_short_12: YFG6B4VPCPCC · pith_short_16: YFG6B4VPCPCCUTAY · pith_short_8: YFG6B4VP

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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/YFG6B4VPCPCCUTAYBYPQYLW6NV \
  | 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: c14de0f2af13c42a4c180e1f0c2ede6d5db8b53f9ba847bcdff3d9e5dbe14856

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3758753f5087e9904f2404d75e0e4ea575fd1679b0a1d42549362cb08d072a29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1992-09-03T17:03:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3420b94fc0c01e834eb1b1202db31ceabafdb4eba83a3e3c8cd37b6ab0e5978b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9209210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}