Pith Number

pith:Z62ZRBAQ

pith:2019:Z62ZRBAQMLJUQMK3RUEUASZ4JI

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Vacuum Decay in Real Time and Imaginary Time Formalisms

Mark P. Hertzberg, Masaki Yamada

arxiv:1904.08565 v2 · 2019-04-18 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z62ZRBAQMLJUQMK3RUEUASZ4JI}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T23:55:55.555062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfb598841062d348315b8d09404b3c4a05a77cc017c2620f431c140b5eae90f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.08565 · arxiv_version: 1904.08565v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.08565 · pith_short_12: Z62ZRBAQMLJU · pith_short_16: Z62ZRBAQMLJUQMK3 · pith_short_8: Z62ZRBAQ

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/Z62ZRBAQMLJUQMK3RUEUASZ4JI \
  | 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: cfb598841062d348315b8d09404b3c4a05a77cc017c2620f431c140b5eae90f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4163c0388ed95f91b37e825532214c3efe6078ecf75075468dc8cd4fc18d7db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-18T01:58:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "380cbda7eb2cab21d1a05ab82d6c907f3b1d925dfcaecf7e4ea55c1443a4d3f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.08565",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}