Pith Number

pith:VFRAJFPY

pith:2012:VFRAJFPYGLZNWNF4APEZ52LUNJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Crack in the Conformal Window

Benjamin R. Safdi, Igor R. Klebanov, Jeongseog Lee

arxiv:1212.4502 v3 · 2012-12-18 · hep-th · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFRAJFPYGLZNWNF4APEZ52LUNJ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:52:30.758964Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9620495f832f2db34bc03c99ee9746a5ef44c66f1d215c8c4711e1dd50c1ec0

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4502 · arxiv_version: 1212.4502v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4502 · pith_short_12: VFRAJFPYGLZN · pith_short_16: VFRAJFPYGLZNWNF4 · pith_short_8: VFRAJFPY

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/VFRAJFPYGLZNWNF4APEZ52LUNJ \
  | 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: a9620495f832f2db34bc03c99ee9746a5ef44c66f1d215c8c4711e1dd50c1ec0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f75f41ee23aced75d6a8f50e91d6050e9f556d8ba1535aa6ca14201e1985cc33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-18T21:01:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15947d90fd3d4171735ef189ec4374ca6337264d5737bbf6edce1b33b1d70b9d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.4502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}