Pith Number

pith:VTQI4JSU

pith:2010:VTQI4JSUUCB2BIVM6JRA5KL5NL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why LHC?

D. P. Roy

arxiv:1002.3050 v4 · 2010-02-16 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTQI4JSUUCB2BIVM6JRA5KL5NL}

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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	2026-05-18T04:27:57.095039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ace08e2654a083a0a2acf2620ea97d6aee974de6df8db6f9162230024c6a4bf1

Aliases

arxiv: 1002.3050 · arxiv_version: 1002.3050v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1002.3050 · pith_short_12: VTQI4JSUUCB2 · pith_short_16: VTQI4JSUUCB2BIVM · pith_short_8: VTQI4JSU

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/VTQI4JSUUCB2BIVM6JRA5KL5NL \
  | 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: ace08e2654a083a0a2acf2620ea97d6aee974de6df8db6f9162230024c6a4bf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e77ddbc72f4f59f2870e563b614c0411d4b70146335fe7b8ab3d648011155891",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-02-16T12:07:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d283190c7227756913aaf1c6875893de3b5808f29e5fc3149171704652c53315"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1002.3050",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}