Pith Number

pith:E4LZXBBG

pith:2000:E4LZXBBGJHCQIIHD7TSAN5HJNY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bekenstein model and the time variation of the strong coupling constant

2), (2) HIAST, Argentina, Damascus, H. Vucetich (1) ((1)U.N.L.P., La Plata, N. Chamoun (1, S.J. Landau (1), Syria)

arxiv:astro-ph/0008436 v3 · 2000-08-28 · astro-ph · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E4LZXBBGJHCQIIHD7TSAN5HJNY}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:54.033150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

27179b842649c50420e3fce406f4e96e035050d4fbe80a9cf8176f6f696df712

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0008436 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0008436v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0008436 · pith_short_12: E4LZXBBGJHCQ · pith_short_16: E4LZXBBGJHCQIIHD · pith_short_8: E4LZXBBG

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/E4LZXBBGJHCQIIHD7TSAN5HJNY \
  | 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: 27179b842649c50420e3fce406f4e96e035050d4fbe80a9cf8176f6f696df712

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d5fc1df174b84121d1c744859ccd7a0ef31907430aacffcbca1e412112c074b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-08-28T20:19:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03645a1f1943ce4c86208595dbf62b123a9f6c1ec39822cbc2467ddd66947d5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0008436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}