Pith Number

pith:ZTRNHMJ7

pith:1997:ZTRNHMJ7PPVDOAMOPNPQO2LJIX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can Cosmic Ray Catalysed Vacuum Decay Dominate Over Tunnelling?

John McDonald, Kari Enqvist

arxiv:hep-ph/9704431 v1 · 1997-04-29 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZTRNHMJ7PPVDOAMOPNPQO2LJIX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-07-04T16:04:56.776747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cce2d3b13f7bea37018e7b5f07696945e86fe864fe9b144c552c2c267e6ea893

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9704431 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9704431v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9704431 · pith_short_12: ZTRNHMJ7PPVD · pith_short_16: ZTRNHMJ7PPVDOAMO · pith_short_8: ZTRNHMJ7

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/ZTRNHMJ7PPVDOAMOPNPQO2LJIX \
  | 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: cce2d3b13f7bea37018e7b5f07696945e86fe864fe9b144c552c2c267e6ea893

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d16809c2bd64065cc8b3893cfc8d1485969916511efe75c20a2f3547bd8c935",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-29T10:02:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ecc5d475b3ffb869bd194e045907d7685e920c9338e0e0c3d44b318c3123f4df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9704431",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}