Pith Number

pith:COJOCVJA

pith:1998:COJOCVJAJ7ME6V2SGGYYVQZLYW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Perspectives on the Quest for Unification

Edward Witten

arxiv:hep-ph/9812208 v1 · 1998-12-01 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{COJOCVJAJ7ME6V2SGGYYVQZLYW}

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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	2026-07-04T14:30:51.328515Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1392e155204fd84f575231b18ac32bc588ce2450b7059f5bcbe1c35502d12985

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9812208 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9812208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9812208 · pith_short_12: COJOCVJAJ7ME · pith_short_16: COJOCVJAJ7ME6V2S · pith_short_8: COJOCVJA

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/COJOCVJAJ7ME6V2SGGYYVQZLYW \
  | 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: 1392e155204fd84f575231b18ac32bc588ce2450b7059f5bcbe1c35502d12985

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4710ccc275b19288b45fbd376937ab41823b1919b18c98167ad24a4ae7a44cc7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-01T15:48:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa48ef4c12da22b1be7d4ca663076e77d8d50ebbfaeb2d4a03891c4583f95110"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9812208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}