Pith Number

pith:F4U3GT77

pith:2011:F4U3GT77KFOKNAPCJU3CGCYOZO

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Abdus Salam: A Reappraisal. PART I. How to Win the Nobel Prize

Norman Dombey

arxiv:1109.1972 v4 · 2011-09-09 · physics.hist-ph · hep-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F4U3GT77KFOKNAPCJU3CGCYOZO}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:21:36.835448Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f29b34fff515ca681e24d36230b0ecbbd4f00c0664ce56cabda7e7ee9e0dc81

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.1972 · arxiv_version: 1109.1972v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.1972 · pith_short_12: F4U3GT77KFOK · pith_short_16: F4U3GT77KFOKNAPC · pith_short_8: F4U3GT77

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/F4U3GT77KFOKNAPCJU3CGCYOZO \
  | 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: 2f29b34fff515ca681e24d36230b0ecbbd4f00c0664ce56cabda7e7ee9e0dc81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e844dbddf0d20e525b74c0c11acf09ca1adab2fc06dfde42cf429c5f762f5f5a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-09T11:51:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39e1f9fbec031b259c21db55bc0a11a15aabc367cbdb8aaf553904285b03f2d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.1972",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}