Pith Number

pith:MN7I42V3

pith:2000:MN7I42V34EMRCHGR6QGQSXMZ25

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of Proton Decay: A Must for Theory, a Challenge for Experiment

Jogesh C. Pati

arxiv:hep-ph/0005095 v2 · 2000-05-10 · hep-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MN7I42V34EMRCHGR6QGQSXMZ25}

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:50.271570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

637e8e6abbe119111cd1f40d095d99d77585d14dae7af37e49d8b87d440c5674

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/0005095 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/0005095v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0005095 · pith_short_12: MN7I42V34EMR · pith_short_16: MN7I42V34EMRCHGR · pith_short_8: MN7I42V3

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/MN7I42V34EMRCHGR6QGQSXMZ25 \
  | 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: 637e8e6abbe119111cd1f40d095d99d77585d14dae7af37e49d8b87d440c5674

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "924db15c5bfa9d87db56ef4ca1a89054e97aa4dbfc0119130c5bb0f0e368696f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-05-10T20:20:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc6e489596880a7774754d6bcedc87ee1b04345f6be4b920318200cd86ca0aa3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/0005095",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}