Pith Number

pith:N4QOTPT4

pith:1998:N4QOTPT4OCPCENAOFATIHM2LRW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perturbative QCD theory (includes our knowledge of alpha_s)

Milan, PNPI, St.Petersburg), Yuri L. Dokshitzer (INFN

arxiv:hep-ph/9812252 v1 · 1998-12-04 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N4QOTPT4OCPCENAOFATIHM2LRW}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T14:30:51.676508Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f20e9be7c709e22340e282683b34b8d81675ff7f0c41fb27ce37543de7ffcdc

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9812252 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9812252v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9812252 · pith_short_12: N4QOTPT4OCPC · pith_short_16: N4QOTPT4OCPCENAO · pith_short_8: N4QOTPT4

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/N4QOTPT4OCPCENAOFATIHM2LRW \
  | 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: 6f20e9be7c709e22340e282683b34b8d81675ff7f0c41fb27ce37543de7ffcdc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19eecb2ee0cd1de2a9ca549ba60398ce6d23f097ff64d467250d6a6eb887eed1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-04T13:41:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99ae0de6d929e5f6956da7aec1d68d89c3a64220c41f8abd8a6d60555dcc3250"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9812252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}