Pith Number

pith:WKA4H23Z

pith:2003:WKA4H23ZFE5ZNA4FZUY6ABXK6O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Possibilities of a QED-Based Vacuum Energy

H. M. Fried

arxiv:hep-th/0310095 v1 · 2003-10-09 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WKA4H23ZFE5ZNA4FZUY6ABXK6O}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:44.335881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b281c3eb79293b968385cd31e006eaf3a9177a91dcfb098e66d7b684860a44ad

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0310095 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0310095v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0310095 · pith_short_12: WKA4H23ZFE5Z · pith_short_16: WKA4H23ZFE5ZNA4F · pith_short_8: WKA4H23Z

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/WKA4H23ZFE5ZNA4FZUY6ABXK6O \
  | 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: b281c3eb79293b968385cd31e006eaf3a9177a91dcfb098e66d7b684860a44ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de6b6ba950f511f3d6ff0eca041b970d8fc885f14fcddfc28308b106a5990122",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-10-09T15:02:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d536d5f9deeb5ee63ebd8e4b4a923362b70c0b03803f690bcb04e696ecd6a51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0310095",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}