Pith Number

pith:QQIZAQLI

pith:2004:QQIZAQLIO5RT6NU37PR5NGSIU5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unstable Relics as a Source of Galactic Positrons

Charles Picciotto, Maxim Pospelov

arxiv:hep-ph/0402178 v3 · 2004-02-18 · hep-ph · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QQIZAQLIO5RT6NU37PR5NGSIU5}

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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	2026-07-04T17:24:37.621431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

841190416877633f369bfbe3d69a48a76463b0ef47a5870abdc1194da351eba4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/0402178 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/0402178v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0402178 · pith_short_12: QQIZAQLIO5RT · pith_short_16: QQIZAQLIO5RT6NU3 · pith_short_8: QQIZAQLI

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/QQIZAQLIO5RT6NU37PR5NGSIU5 \
  | 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: 841190416877633f369bfbe3d69a48a76463b0ef47a5870abdc1194da351eba4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8abbf41f6b8ec8321fc222fe165e58dcf8011946c6ad84a5d16473350406ec1d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-02-18T08:33:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e785812ca9720af46fe14be292041bc0e640b3954b6cbcbafb97f959c021eb9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/0402178",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}