Pith Number

pith:KA6GXC6Q

pith:2017:KA6GXC6QXO2SWAGSW4YHJXQLAD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Axions and ALPs: a very short introduction

David J. E. Marsh

arxiv:1712.03018 v1 · 2017-12-08 · hep-ph · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KA6GXC6QXO2SWAGSW4YHJXQLAD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:28.578289Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

503c6b8bd0bbb52b00d2b73074de0b00f7ed52a0698bc5959f5f6dd1e15eee88

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03018 · arxiv_version: 1712.03018v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03018 · pith_short_12: KA6GXC6QXO2S · pith_short_16: KA6GXC6QXO2SWAGS · pith_short_8: KA6GXC6Q

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/KA6GXC6QXO2SWAGSW4YHJXQLAD \
  | 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: 503c6b8bd0bbb52b00d2b73074de0b00f7ed52a0698bc5959f5f6dd1e15eee88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "240a50c52a9c60b1d40de68136b78b418cecf8ff32d489c0a5804ccbbe50c5d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-08T10:47:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0341390d44075ae86d3c621d201a011478aea98d4b96ef70134f88afb9d60b70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03018",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}