Pith Number

pith:I7SC5WKX

pith:1993:I7SC5WKX2VCYO5ANKVTJU7NJI2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Status of QCD

Frank Wilczek

arxiv:hep-ph/9311302 v1 · 1993-11-16 · hep-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I7SC5WKX2VCYO5ANKVTJU7NJI2}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:39:01.719824Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47e42ed957d54587740d55669a7da9469cbb6c9c11a94ba023044cb46e28264a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9311302 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9311302v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9311302 · pith_short_12: I7SC5WKX2VCY · pith_short_16: I7SC5WKX2VCYO5AN · pith_short_8: I7SC5WKX

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/I7SC5WKX2VCYO5ANKVTJU7NJI2 \
  | 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: 47e42ed957d54587740d55669a7da9469cbb6c9c11a94ba023044cb46e28264a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d7e28dab66f4c9983b4453ec9779ab028f3e4cb2b4a4848e37f9a2638427b9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1993-11-16T13:55:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b4329011bee8e4afd00fe4ef3c73666cc92f4219df8076a4c96cd2bbc6316f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9311302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}