Pith Number

pith:VSG4IPAF

pith:1997:VSG4IPAFTMQYPQDHSDTCZQHPEM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evolution of Parton Distributions

David A. Kosower

arxiv:hep-ph/9706213 v2 · 1997-06-02 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSG4IPAFTMQYPQDHSDTCZQHPEM}

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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	2026-05-18T02:37:00.966863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac8dc43c059b2187c06790e62cc0ef231836f15bb432d3aab8349a7480fc8be2

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9706213 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9706213v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9706213 · pith_short_12: VSG4IPAFTMQY · pith_short_16: VSG4IPAFTMQYPQDH · pith_short_8: VSG4IPAF

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/VSG4IPAFTMQYPQDHSDTCZQHPEM \
  | 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: ac8dc43c059b2187c06790e62cc0ef231836f15bb432d3aab8349a7480fc8be2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0101e3f8ad9efb40e27c682bdef24994353fcb73cb63dbd40e68ee71e918fa8c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-06-02T11:50:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "602158993d2ec1f0ec6a561b025eea9d78a11ea554d0db1cb83a0385fbe592a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9706213",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}