Pith Number

pith:JMR3VTJZ

pith:2009:JMR3VTJZRIJBGIND5KY6K5P6HI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fixing the Pole in the Pyramid

Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Fortin, Scott Kathrein, Tom Banks

arxiv:0912.1313 v1 · 2009-12-07 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JMR3VTJZRIJBGIND5KY6K5P6HI}

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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	2026-05-18T04:32:34.799615Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b23bacd398a121321a3eab1e575fe3a23a6672db99dd02d3308fecf07f59773

Aliases

arxiv: 0912.1313 · arxiv_version: 0912.1313v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.1313 · pith_short_12: JMR3VTJZRIJB · pith_short_16: JMR3VTJZRIJBGIND · pith_short_8: JMR3VTJZ

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/JMR3VTJZRIJBGIND5KY6K5P6HI \
  | 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: 4b23bacd398a121321a3eab1e575fe3a23a6672db99dd02d3308fecf07f59773

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8e4e18c483067029f210a38d60aa2115198e0a7cd68cea9a852ebc5dc8236bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-12-07T19:15:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7d48b28452bd5e0e3abd718c40485e6c0befbfb8614880d24f89642976b5dc2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0912.1313",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}