Pith Number

pith:4FUYXYAV

pith:2014:4FUYXYAVWBAKNUBFRH7XOVWCFZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Higgs vacuum is unstable

Alexander Spencer-Smith, Archil Kobakhidze

arxiv:1404.4709 v2 · 2014-04-18 · hep-ph · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4FUYXYAVWBAKNUBFRH7XOVWCFZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:53:39.404910Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1698be015b040a6d02589ff7756c22e55808a03f39ab5604eabdb3efae2e707

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.4709 · arxiv_version: 1404.4709v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.4709 · pith_short_12: 4FUYXYAVWBAK · pith_short_16: 4FUYXYAVWBAKNUBF · pith_short_8: 4FUYXYAV

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/4FUYXYAVWBAKNUBFRH7XOVWCFZ \
  | 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: e1698be015b040a6d02589ff7756c22e55808a03f39ab5604eabdb3efae2e707

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "831cf3e829db5cd439bc29e1d7e1ce7262006c1a1d4dd5a6c3a84e59aea4b7d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-18T07:15:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03a4f03ad5a5e75a7750650afd590df74cc5950d80e109fa23bdf58b93c45c94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.4709",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}