Pith Number

pith:XXRK4PES

pith:1999:XXRK4PESRBAONHSWLSXMCGQAID

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tau Physics

A. Pich

arxiv:hep-ph/9912294 v1 · 1999-12-10 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XXRK4PESRBAONHSWLSXMCGQAID}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:16.466116Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bde2ae3c928840e69e565caec11a0040f547133a0a5e92529ca5537a52840374

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9912294 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9912294v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9912294 · pith_short_12: XXRK4PESRBAO · pith_short_16: XXRK4PESRBAONHSW · pith_short_8: XXRK4PES

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/XXRK4PESRBAONHSWLSXMCGQAID \
  | 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: bde2ae3c928840e69e565caec11a0040f547133a0a5e92529ca5537a52840374

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91d7fbf140bf36b57229b66f71d0817a5b0621f1462da738b82a0d3c899135d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-12-10T11:37:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb5c2a3e8bd1fc33036e12a8050409d42aa2bba45fa8eeb4886b3cf607200b93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9912294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}