Pith Number

pith:2W3SKWTL

pith:1996:2W3SKWTLAJEU6L7ZLSB6FDH527

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is the vacuum stable?

Alexander Kusenko, Paul Langacker (University of Pennsylvania)

arxiv:hep-ph/9608340 v1 · 1996-08-15 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2W3SKWTLAJEU6L7ZLSB6FDH527}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:37:11.456796Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5b7255a6b02494f2ff95c83e28cfdd7ebeed0e70d113c88db94a95e7bf6e7f2

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9608340 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9608340v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9608340 · pith_short_12: 2W3SKWTLAJEU · pith_short_16: 2W3SKWTLAJEU6L7Z · pith_short_8: 2W3SKWTL

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/2W3SKWTLAJEU6L7ZLSB6FDH527 \
  | 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: d5b7255a6b02494f2ff95c83e28cfdd7ebeed0e70d113c88db94a95e7bf6e7f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2cc37b0d2379272d09f85902ba2cfb7a4afc4799b9b73bea85dce3e01920200b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-15T19:16:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c28cf9a86ba04e7fd2cfa8b8e84e13a02b1d25f90fb042516ea287c4b8d7eaf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9608340",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}