Pith Number

pith:JFVDNFED

pith:1998:JFVDNFEDJQPHWWD7344S2ZGIHB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spin Issues in t-tbar Production and Decay

Gregory Mahlon (McGill University)

arxiv:hep-ph/9811281 v1 · 1998-11-09 · hep-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JFVDNFEDJQPHWWD7344S2ZGIHB}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-07-04T14:30:50.044713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

496a3694834c1e7b587fdf392d64c838519ba372fab1ae0163c132bf946887d7

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9811281 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9811281v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9811281 · pith_short_12: JFVDNFEDJQPH · pith_short_16: JFVDNFEDJQPHWWD7 · pith_short_8: JFVDNFED

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/JFVDNFEDJQPHWWD7344S2ZGIHB \
  | 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: 496a3694834c1e7b587fdf392d64c838519ba372fab1ae0163c132bf946887d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b54748c6c0208ff48f42ac3b4ac6ea2879d511d178624dceb128687f185bcab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-11-09T18:56:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66ffb9cb716de223ba428db3a9aca95a3ad66728d17057b4344636d81a2bd319"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9811281",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}