Pith Number

pith:U5DMIFNF

pith:2016:U5DMIFNFQD4X4ZWJPUNTNNJZAZ

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A. Kleppe

arxiv:1608.08988 v1 · 2016-01-23 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5DMIFNFQD4X4ZWJPUNTNNJZAZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:39.516599Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a746c415a580f97e66c97d1b36b539065ebe078d21809b0dcdcd1f09447a3afb

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08988 · arxiv_version: 1608.08988v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08988 · pith_short_12: U5DMIFNFQD4X · pith_short_16: U5DMIFNFQD4X4ZWJ · pith_short_8: U5DMIFNF

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/U5DMIFNFQD4X4ZWJPUNTNNJZAZ \
  | 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: a746c415a580f97e66c97d1b36b539065ebe078d21809b0dcdcd1f09447a3afb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b70aac51f3bfe4915e4765d2acc6d41c79e562c2fbddf9e715111b1a0aee00e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-23T05:39:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0bdd491c2ba4f65349670f505e2b8ebf4e0069b2619073dda8844efb067c188"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08988",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}