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Pith Number

pith:FP3XJVDY

pith:2013:FP3XJVDY7R6YKQTX4I2MSNBOZT
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Can the Higgs Boson Save Us From the Menace of the Boltzmann Brains?

Kimberly K. Boddy, Sean M. Carroll

arxiv:1308.4686 v1 · 2013-08-21 · hep-ph · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FP3XJVDY7R6YKQTX4I2MSNBOZT}

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T03:15:20.222045Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2bf774d478fc7d854277e234c9342ecceb254f0b0c1f406d1213224d0a012579

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.4686 · arxiv_version: 1308.4686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.4686 · pith_short_12: FP3XJVDY7R6Y · pith_short_16: FP3XJVDY7R6YKQTX · pith_short_8: FP3XJVDY
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FP3XJVDY7R6YKQTX4I2MSNBOZT \
  | 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: 2bf774d478fc7d854277e234c9342ecceb254f0b0c1f406d1213224d0a012579
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09f1474f741366c1f049a841ca8bbda89c408a045ce039cf63f1093ed1754c94",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-21T20:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2c23ef8c1d90fc5f70bf5eb934c6144da476d59a19a6c41277e43a7144287c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.4686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}