Pith Number

pith:VLK42KPD

pith:2002:VLK42KPDE6EW3IDJVTUPU5COJY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perspectives on Exclusive Processes in QCD

Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC)

arxiv:hep-ph/0208158 v2 · 2002-08-16 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLK42KPDE6EW3IDJVTUPU5COJY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:12.400086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aad5cd29e327896da069ace8fa744e4e16649b354bbddb9c01327b12029d98b2

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/0208158 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/0208158v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0208158 · pith_short_12: VLK42KPDE6EW · pith_short_16: VLK42KPDE6EW3IDJ · pith_short_8: VLK42KPD

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/VLK42KPDE6EW3IDJVTUPU5COJY \
  | 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: aad5cd29e327896da069ace8fa744e4e16649b354bbddb9c01327b12029d98b2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "413deaf0985f32e59d0895d34de5fd5c63aecf4df9fa3fcb0fefc03af61f7905",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-16T05:12:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7689b554cd4bd1c177ceaa0c2d362fde929123021a87c7742b3723f6977d24a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/0208158",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}