Pith Number

pith:RNK4C2PY

pith:2012:RNK4C2PYE7SXQFHEMRJDMDRTZI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Electroweak Instantons, Axions, and the Cosmological Constant

Larry McLerran, Robert D. Pisarski, Vladimir Skokov

arxiv:1204.2533 v3 · 2012-04-11 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RNK4C2PYE7SXQFHEMRJDMDRTZI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:53.437013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b55c169f827e57814e46452360e33ca1ccf30ec86c14685b87f5adf0eabb3bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.2533 · arxiv_version: 1204.2533v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.2533 · pith_short_12: RNK4C2PYE7SX · pith_short_16: RNK4C2PYE7SXQFHE · pith_short_8: RNK4C2PY

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/RNK4C2PYE7SXQFHEMRJDMDRTZI \
  | 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: 8b55c169f827e57814e46452360e33ca1ccf30ec86c14685b87f5adf0eabb3bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2e7a08ce1ba9e13bc52f03aa92e0d23f8906c25caf2850f38d3b0c0445acf99",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-11T19:37:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75db517dbf140530435bed0e7a2836c12b25f4dc98e839c348b55178060119ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.2533",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}