Pith Number

pith:G5SEAQJ7

pith:2012:G5SEAQJ7QHVIQ2IC4NG3AM6ONM

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Symmetry breaking and the Scalar boson - evolving perspectives

Francois Englert

arxiv:1204.5382 v2 · 2012-04-24 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G5SEAQJ7QHVIQ2IC4NG3AM6ONM}

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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	2026-05-18T03:56:59.764389Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

376440413f81ea886902e34db033ce6b0319db46ba809b1e8dd6d3bb4c494803

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.5382 · arxiv_version: 1204.5382v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.5382 · pith_short_12: G5SEAQJ7QHVI · pith_short_16: G5SEAQJ7QHVIQ2IC · pith_short_8: G5SEAQJ7

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/G5SEAQJ7QHVIQ2IC4NG3AM6ONM \
  | 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: 376440413f81ea886902e34db033ce6b0319db46ba809b1e8dd6d3bb4c494803

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ef3c994d8ce16174fc928dac2d8af7f88f09b4156b87bea6c29ed8e8eb170bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-24T14:18:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a77adb96f95b0b4267a28a14a4f87bdc98c747094d37b7529384faa1e41c369d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.5382",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}