Pith Number

pith:R4IGBII7

pith:2012:R4IGBII7CODR2MHFD4IQZ76IWD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Through a glass, darkly: theory summary

Davison E. Soper

arxiv:1206.5043 v1 · 2012-06-22 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R4IGBII7CODR2MHFD4IQZ76IWD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:52:52.562229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f1060a11f13871d30e51f110cffc8b0d84b2ee20a95b975c9436ecee875fe9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.5043 · arxiv_version: 1206.5043v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.5043 · pith_short_12: R4IGBII7CODR · pith_short_16: R4IGBII7CODR2MHF · pith_short_8: R4IGBII7

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/R4IGBII7CODR2MHFD4IQZ76IWD \
  | 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: 8f1060a11f13871d30e51f110cffc8b0d84b2ee20a95b975c9436ecee875fe9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13d49ce218b4b641a65411543d938d266e5b4f930bdd2bd37495e6bde7222877",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-22T02:30:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b714bbb6711b22c64bc11e6d54ffa71c5ccd60b0669d61ac5054ae12491ad12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.5043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}