Pith Number

pith:RAN3K5R5

pith:2008:RAN3K5R55D2HZRLA3PNJC2Z4SN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A direct road to Majorana fields

Andreas Aste

arxiv:0806.1690 v4 · 2008-06-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RAN3K5R55D2HZRLA3PNJC2Z4SN}

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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	2026-05-18T04:38:17.534269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

881bb5763de8f47cc560dbda916b3c937c297224923bdf72b32d43f7bd4e1bcb

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.1690 · arxiv_version: 0806.1690v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.1690 · pith_short_12: RAN3K5R55D2H · pith_short_16: RAN3K5R55D2HZRLA · pith_short_8: RAN3K5R5

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/RAN3K5R55D2HZRLA3PNJC2Z4SN \
  | 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: 881bb5763de8f47cc560dbda916b3c937c297224923bdf72b32d43f7bd4e1bcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea28a641718154104678c779387b68dcac82f2306936d1477e9912dd144c6596",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-10T15:21:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b102287c46525bb01515f25281ec30a142a7113b52c960254af4c6ed3945dd8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.1690",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}