Pith Number

pith:3GXOSIT2

pith:2012:3GXOSIT2WX2CF4GSQDYCUDKSRO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is Radioactive Decay Really Exponential?

Philip J. Aston

arxiv:1204.5953 v1 · 2012-04-26 · nucl-th · math-ph · math.MP · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3GXOSIT2WX2CF4GSQDYCUDKSRO}

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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	2026-05-18T03:56:58.899243Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9aee9227ab5f422f0d280f02a0d528ba55fe96c4649b4b471333a9825afafa7

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.5953 · arxiv_version: 1204.5953v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.5953 · pith_short_12: 3GXOSIT2WX2C · pith_short_16: 3GXOSIT2WX2CF4GS · pith_short_8: 3GXOSIT2

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/3GXOSIT2WX2CF4GSQDYCUDKSRO \
  | 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: d9aee9227ab5f422f0d280f02a0d528ba55fe96c4649b4b471333a9825afafa7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7f9ab9ff2ae93c8e1f8f4c938e440b34e60c416fc9201f01a41260896e760d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nucl-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-26T14:58:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30b0364f6c2b0f2a0be9158bf8ca6dcb6e43e4b163a3b6a383f37c76a4225d76"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.5953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}