Pith Number

pith:UGUMTS4N

pith:1996:UGUMTS4NW24FTK3IPVYPUV5NL7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Future Directions for QCD

J. D. Bjorken

arxiv:hep-ph/9610516 v1 · 1996-10-28 · hep-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UGUMTS4NW24FTK3IPVYPUV5NL7}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:24.744545Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a1a8c9cb8db6b859ab687d70fa57ad5ff6325a1aaaee3ade967f05bc900949d6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9610516 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9610516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9610516 · pith_short_12: UGUMTS4NW24F · pith_short_16: UGUMTS4NW24FTK3I · pith_short_8: UGUMTS4N

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/UGUMTS4NW24FTK3IPVYPUV5NL7 \
  | 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: a1a8c9cb8db6b859ab687d70fa57ad5ff6325a1aaaee3ade967f05bc900949d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3227cafeb2e578275f92e08b051f85cb535d97285736bb4129a0b8d92e5859d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-28T23:36:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b9f8c149bc93713b4b28fa2323ea807ae9745bef326d8488a5a8f3ab5e27a7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9610516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}