Pith Number

pith:4773MF7P

pith:2017:4773MF7PH6XCUWYGBBESX3KRCV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Where is Particle Physics Going?

John Ellis

arxiv:1704.02821 v1 · 2017-04-10 · hep-ph · hep-ex

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4773MF7PH6XCUWYGBBESX3KRCV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:58.208170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7ffb617ef3fae2a5b0608492bed5115534f02940265186b8e0489e001887b99

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.02821 · arxiv_version: 1704.02821v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.02821 · pith_short_12: 4773MF7PH6XC · pith_short_16: 4773MF7PH6XCUWYG · pith_short_8: 4773MF7P

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/4773MF7PH6XCUWYGBBESX3KRCV \
  | 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: e7ffb617ef3fae2a5b0608492bed5115534f02940265186b8e0489e001887b99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cbfe97a1ae5e103ef3ec63338193c6c6b4b5081a7d4f83bb6fe27e38074ca44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-10T12:13:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d184fd78d97d63d5b2345659a91ed17764d9e7ebd15d2505bb568c5300b5eca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.02821",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}