Pith Number

pith:Z2FXX7V6

pith:2017:Z2FXX7V6TZQDGXWWIS6ERJHYY3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On a Relation of Vacuum Energy to the Hierarchy of Forces

Laura Mersini-Houghton, Stephon Alexander

arxiv:1705.10773 v2 · 2017-05-30 · gr-qc · astro-ph.HE · hep-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z2FXX7V6TZQDGXWWIS6ERJHYY3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:08.733933Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce8b7bfebe9e60335ed644bc48a4f8c6e4e2b951675f32c60c8cc32c526f2f2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.10773 · arxiv_version: 1705.10773v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.10773 · pith_short_12: Z2FXX7V6TZQD · pith_short_16: Z2FXX7V6TZQDGXWW · pith_short_8: Z2FXX7V6

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/Z2FXX7V6TZQDGXWWIS6ERJHYY3 \
  | 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: ce8b7bfebe9e60335ed644bc48a4f8c6e4e2b951675f32c60c8cc32c526f2f2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90bf482eef1ef90b35332cb8891ff1c596d98d71c116e61aff6e62b229cc59a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-30T17:52:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f483deeb6513cee73e07deff63faca1b0d3060cad9c26a8dbbec8c6cac083f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.10773",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}