Pith Number

pith:SRVNF3LV

pith:1998:SRVNF3LVBDPI4MLH7K7EJGZM5J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quintessential Difficulties

Christopher Kolda, David H. Lyth

arxiv:hep-ph/9811375 v3 · 1998-11-17 · hep-ph · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SRVNF3LVBDPI4MLH7K7EJGZM5J}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:36:57.168745Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

946ad2ed7508de8e3167fabe449b2cea4eb9525cc6564e983e0fc7236362d764

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9811375 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9811375v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9811375 · pith_short_12: SRVNF3LVBDPI · pith_short_16: SRVNF3LVBDPI4MLH · pith_short_8: SRVNF3LV

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/SRVNF3LVBDPI4MLH7K7EJGZM5J \
  | 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: 946ad2ed7508de8e3167fabe449b2cea4eb9525cc6564e983e0fc7236362d764

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b683d09cf889e783a8561efd30e0ea1a0e3d11d56c260fcf210becf3c2eca8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-11-17T20:38:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "206f861008cc9d4639df60025649af6cb7c228c9b4b67fe17e574b0dc1036958"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9811375",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}