Pith Number

pith:F4HZQ2T7

pith:1997:F4HZQ2T7Y6ADWENTSIPTELNMAN

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The Future of Particle Physics as a Natural Science

Frank Wilczek

arxiv:hep-ph/9702371 v2 · 1997-02-19 · hep-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F4HZQ2T7Y6ADWENTSIPTELNMAN}

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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	2026-05-18T04:23:55.093058Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f0f986a7fc7803b11b3921f322dac036481c1073cd610146dbef10a00e8fbcf

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9702371 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9702371v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9702371 · pith_short_12: F4HZQ2T7Y6AD · pith_short_16: F4HZQ2T7Y6ADWENT · pith_short_8: F4HZQ2T7

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/F4HZQ2T7Y6ADWENTSIPTELNMAN \
  | 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: 2f0f986a7fc7803b11b3921f322dac036481c1073cd610146dbef10a00e8fbcf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1db034a685d2511f10face91c31df08cea9eca02d114d993e01d5006f87385b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-02-19T19:19:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f241ff1684d0a375d0f8dd4be75df9d1531cb64ff30d2168b58a213dc9429b2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9702371",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}