Pith Number

pith:VDH3FVAA

pith:2016:VDH3FVAADITN3KGWB6JXLNVJHO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Theory Vision, LHCP 2016

Frank Wilczek

arxiv:1609.06941 v2 · 2016-09-22 · hep-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDH3FVAADITN3KGWB6JXLNVJHO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:13.574659Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8cfb2d4001a26dda8d60f9375b6a93bb75348a7e54da8460e1d335783ca2eaf

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.06941 · arxiv_version: 1609.06941v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.06941 · pith_short_12: VDH3FVAADITN · pith_short_16: VDH3FVAADITN3KGW · pith_short_8: VDH3FVAA

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/VDH3FVAADITN3KGWB6JXLNVJHO \
  | 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: a8cfb2d4001a26dda8d60f9375b6a93bb75348a7e54da8460e1d335783ca2eaf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c4a6125881bc070c92764febb657d529602d4167da5717b1d18d6074148bdd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-22T12:35:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61ebd01f52806a5db4c93cfcb633d60d895f0eccf7b68bfac6f50d74ed988173"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.06941",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}