Pith Number

pith:U3UZESSF

pith:2010:U3UZESSF4G3YRU3FVOQVITGNNE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Broken Symmetry as a Stabilizing Remnant

Kristian L. McDonald, Sandy S. C. Law

arxiv:1008.4336 v2 · 2010-08-25 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U3UZESSF4G3YRU3FVOQVITGNNE}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:38.882051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6e9924a45e1b788d365aba1544ccd6915958ea612b5f5a2866b8e64a21b3b5a

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.4336 · arxiv_version: 1008.4336v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.4336 · pith_short_12: U3UZESSF4G3Y · pith_short_16: U3UZESSF4G3YRU3F · pith_short_8: U3UZESSF

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/U3UZESSF4G3YRU3FVOQVITGNNE \
  | 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: a6e9924a45e1b788d365aba1544ccd6915958ea612b5f5a2866b8e64a21b3b5a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cd1ac447d6d141da6d42a7ac1a68634f518c062e67c5266e8e7ecad9632ec7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-25T18:39:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b41abf9529aad665cd6cba464ab9e509c873dc18dcbb6708cc508d902b19fcc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.4336",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}