Pith Number

pith:VBQOUAHV

pith:2007:VBQOUAHVCQBWFMJLEQXYIAFFN2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Speeding-up Thorium decay

A. Petrucci, F. Cardone, R. Mignani

arxiv:0710.5177 v1 · 2007-10-26 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBQOUAHVCQBWFMJLEQXYIAFFN2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:27:27.272475Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a860ea00f5140362b12b242f8400a56eb6341e0dd458b93117b3ff6253e10d65

Aliases

arxiv: 0710.5177 · arxiv_version: 0710.5177v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0710.5177 · pith_short_12: VBQOUAHVCQBW · pith_short_16: VBQOUAHVCQBWFMJL · pith_short_8: VBQOUAHV

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/VBQOUAHVCQBWFMJLEQXYIAFFN2 \
  | 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: a860ea00f5140362b12b242f8400a56eb6341e0dd458b93117b3ff6253e10d65

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd3bf9f45213d634c449e71194b135b9abca4d1c1dc00eee60446ff97918c499",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-10-26T20:52:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85673b47c5e6c61b5a93b2bc59d4a81f86fb3ce791a02bc5a5d8461ab8cb2b80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0710.5177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}